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Author:   Mary Rogers ,  Paola Tinagli ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780719080999

ISBN 10:   0719080991
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   30 June 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I The material world of women 1. Buildings and interiors 2. Beauty, quality and elegance: objects in the house 3. Clothes: legislation, description and uses 4. Ceremony and travel: women participants and observers Part II Women, secular art and artists: commissioning, buying, preserving 5. The building and embellishment of palaces, villas and gardens 6. Women and their use and commissioning of portraits 7. Relationships with artists Part III Women, devotion and art 8. Private devotion 9. Communal devotion: spectacles, rituals, miraculous images and pilgrimage 10. Public devotional patronage: personal and collective Part IV Female artists, craftswomen and writers 11. Female artists and craftswomen 12. Women writing on art and artefacts Index -- .

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Mary Rogers has published widely on Italian visual representations of women in relation to the writing of the day|Paola Tinagli is author of Women in Italian Renaissance art (MUP 1997) and live and works in Italy

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