Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy

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• Beyond Isabella i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Prologue xv
• Acknowledgments xxi
• Frequently Cited Sources and Abbreviations xxii
• Introduction: Recognizing New Patrons, Posing New Questions 1
• Fina Da Carrara, Née Buzzacarini: Consort, Mother, and Patron of Art in Trecento Padua 19
• Controlling Women or Women Controlled? Suggestions for Gender Roles and Visual Culture in the Italian Renaissance Palace 37
• The Women Patrons of Neri Di Bicci 51
• Caterina Piccolomini and the Palazzo Delle Papesse in Siena 77
• Renaissance Husbands and Wives as Patrons of Art: The Camerini of Isabella D'Este and Francesco II Gonzaga 93
• Widow, Mother, Patron of Art: Alfonsina Orsini De' Medici 125
• Two Emilian Noblewomen and Patronage Networks in the Cinquecento 159
• Dutiful Widows: Female Patronage and Two Marian Altarpieces by Parmigianino 177
• Vittoria Colonna and the Commission for a Mary Magdalen by Titian 193

• Beyond Isabella i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Prologue xv
• Acknowledgments xxi
• Frequently Cited Sources and Abbreviations xxii
• Introduction: Recognizing New Patrons, Posing New Questions 1
• Fina Da Carrara, Née Buzzacarini: Consort, Mother, and Patron of Art in Trecento Padua 19
• Controlling Women or Women Controlled? Suggestions for Gender Roles and Visual Culture in the Italian Renaissance Palace 37
• The Women Patrons of Neri Di Bicci 51
• Caterina Piccolomini and the Palazzo Delle Papesse in Siena 77
• Renaissance Husbands and Wives as Patrons of Art: The Camerini of Isabella D'Este and Francesco II Gonzaga 93
• Widow, Mother, Patron of Art: Alfonsina Orsini De' Medici 125
• Two Emilian Noblewomen and Patronage Networks in the Cinquecento 159
• Dutiful Widows: Female Patronage and Two Marian Altarpieces by Parmigianino 177
• Vittoria Colonna and the Commission for a Mary Magdalen by Titian 193
• Bronzino in the Service of Eleonora Di Toledo and Cosimo I De' Medici: Conjugal Patronage and the Painter-Courtier 225
• A Medici Miniature: Juno and a Woman with [Eyes in Her Head like Two Stars in Their Beauty] 263
• A Widow's Choice: Alessandro Allori's Christ and the Adulteress in the Church of Santo Spirito at Florence 301
• Matrons and Motives: Why Women Built in Early Modern Rome 317
• About the Contributors 337