Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa

by Ann Roberts

Starting from an inventory and other documents, Ann Roberts has identified some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa. She here examines those objects commissioned for and made by the nuns during the fifteenth century; some of the objects included have never before been published. One of her goals in this study is to bring into the discussion of Renaissance art a body of images that have been previously overlooked,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138265039
• ISBN13: 9781138265035
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 392 Pages