Beyond Isabella Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Beyond Isabella Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy

Who were the secular female patrons of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy beyond Isabella d&;Este? This volume brings together fourteen essays which examine the important and often unrecognized roles aristocratic and bourgeois women played in the patronage of visual culture during the Italian Renaissance. Themes include the significance of role models for female patrons, the dynamics of conjugal patronage, and the widespread patronage activities of widows.

Collectively, the essays demonstrate how resourceful women expressed themselves through patronage despite the limitations of a highly structured patriarchal society. Thus, Isabella d&;Este was by no means unique as a secular female patron, and the studies offered here should encourage scholars to move further &;beyond Isabella&; in their assessment of women&;s patronage of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy.

Sheryl E. Reiss is Senior Research Associate in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Cornell University. She has published articles in the Zeitschrift für Kunstegeschichte, the Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Burlington Magazine.

David G. Wilkins is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Maso di Banco: A Florentine Artist of the Early Trecento; Paintings and Sculpture of the Duquesne Club; and many articles.