Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries

by Sally Anne Hickson

Book Overview

Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of that city in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Author Sally Hickson combines primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409427528
• ISBN13: 9781409427520
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"