Women's patronage and gendered cultural networks in early modern Europe: Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

"This book examines the socio-cultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere. Adelina Modesti uses Gra...

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Beteilige Person: Modesti, Adelina (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Routledge 2020
Schriftenreihe:Visual culture in early modernity
Visual culture in early modernity
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Links:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315200125
Zusammenfassung:"This book examines the socio-cultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere. Adelina Modesti uses Grand Duchess Vittoria as an exemplar of pan-European matronage and proposes a new matrilineal model of patronage in the early modern period, one in which women become not only the mediators but also the architects of public taste and the transmitters of cultural capital. The book will be the first comprehensive monographic study of this important cultural figure. This study will be of interest to scholars working in art history, gender studies, Renaissance studies, and seventeenth century Italy"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 19, 2019)
Umfang:1 online resource (xxv, 290 pages)
ISBN:9781315200125
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