Strong women in Renaissance Italy / Marietta Cambareri.

"Strong Women in Renaissance Italy explores women's live from the fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries by drawing on a wide range of artworks: paintings, prints, and sculptures, as well as velvet panels, illustrated books, embroideries, woven narrative images, and even a box decorated...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cambareri, Marietta (Author, Curator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Description
Summary:"Strong Women in Renaissance Italy explores women's live from the fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries by drawing on a wide range of artworks: paintings, prints, and sculptures, as well as velvet panels, illustrated books, embroideries, woven narrative images, and even a box decorated with cut straw that emulates gold. By asking new questions and reflecting on new approaches to the study of the Italian Renaissance, this book and the exhibition it accompanies use the stories these objects tell to illuminate how Italian Renaissance women forged paths to creativity as well as found ways to exert power and influence, even in the face of great challenges. This broad view encompasses works made by women, including the many women whose names are lost to history; works commissioned or influenced by women; works made for women's use; and images of female exemplars of power, strength, and wisdom"--
Item Description:Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy", organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 9, 2023 - January 7, 2024.
Physical Description:179 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits ; 28 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-163) and index.
ISBN:9780878468928
0878468927