Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany

Positing Medici women's patronage as a network of devotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities that depended on seeing and being seen, Alice Sanger focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries. By examining the religious dimensions of the Medici grand duche

List of contents

Contents: Introduction; Dynasty; Display; Rituals; Relics; Pilgrimages; Images; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

Positing Medici women’s patronage as a network of devotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities that depended on seeing and being seen, Alice Sanger focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries. By examining the religious dimensions of the Medici grand duche

Product details

• Authors: Alice E. Sanger
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032928838
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92883-8
• No. of pages: 180
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ART / History / General, ART / Women Artists, History of Art, Gender studies: women, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Gender studies: women and girls, The arts: general topics