Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna

Examines sixty-eight women artists in early modern Bologna, revealing how they obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subjects to which women were traditionally confined. Uses new methodological models for considering gender and art in early modern Italy.

About the author

Babette Bohn is Professor of Art History and Affiliate Faculty in Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the author of Le “Stanze” di Guido Reni: Disegni del maestro e della scuola and Ludovico Carracci and the Art of Drawing and coauthor of Federico Barroci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line.

Product details

• Authors: Babette Bohn
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2021
• EAN: 9780271086965
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08696-5
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 254 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 1474 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, ART / History / General, History of Art, Renaissance art, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, ART / European / General, ART / Movements / Renaissance, ART / Movements / Baroque & Rococo