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The anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated from Italian or Latin, and accompanied by introductions and bibliographies, is concerned with women's varied involvement with the visual arts and material culture of their day. The reader gains a sense of women not only as patrons of architecture, painting, sculpture and the applied arts, but as users of art both on special occasions, like civic festivities or pilgrimages, and in everyday social and devotional life. As they seek to adapt and embellish their persons and their environments, acquire paintings for solace or prestige, or cultivate relationships with artists, women emerge as discerning participants in the consumer culture of their time, and often as lively commentators on it. Their fervent participation in religious life is also seen in their use of art in devotional rituals, or their commissioning of tombs or altarpieces to perpetuate their memory and aid them in the afterlife.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Women and the Visual Arts in Italy c. 1400-1650
• Author: Mary Rogers
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 358
• EAN: 9780719080982
• ISBN: 0719080983
• ID: 01291142
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 602 g
• Dimensions: 146 × 220 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. June 2012

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