Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries

(Part of the Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series)

by Sally Anne Hickson

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Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of that city in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Author Sally Hickson combines primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138268674

ISBN13:9781138268678

Release Date:November 2016

Publisher:Routledge

Length:204 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Social Science Social Sciences

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