Women, art and architectural patronage in Renaissance Mantua : matrons, mystics and monasteries / Sally Anne Hickson.

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Main Author: Hickson, Sally
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.
Series:Women and gender in the early modern world.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Saints and the city
  • Popular devotion : Isabella d'Este, the Beata Osanna Andreasi and depictions of female sanctity in Mantua
  • Friendship and devotion : Margherita Cantelma and Isabella d'Este
  • Partners in piety : Margherita Cantelma, Isabella d'Este, and the Monastery of Santa Maria della Presentazione in Tempio in Mantua
  • Daughters of devotion : Suor Ippolita Gonzaga and Suor Paola Gonzaga in Mantua
  • Gonzaga family piety and sisterly affection : Margherita Paleologa, first Duchess of Mantua
  • Appendix I. Wills
  • Appendix II. Selected letters of Isabella d'Este and Margherita Cantelma
  • Appendix III. Selected letters of Margherita Paleologa.