Main entry:

Hickson, Sally.

Title & Author:

Women, art and architectural patronage in Renaissance Mantua : matrons, mystics and monasteries / Sally Anne Hickson.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.

Description:

ix, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Saints and the city -- Popular devotion : Isabella d'Este, the Beata Osanna Andreasi and depictions of female sanctity in Mantua -- Friendship and devotion : Margherita Cantelma and Isabella d'Este -- Partners in piety : Margherita Cantelma, Isabella d'Este, and the Monastery of Santa Maria della Presentazione in Tempio in Mantua -- Daughters of devotion : Suor Ippolita Gonzaga and Suor Paola Gonzaga in Mantua -- Gonzaga family piety and sisterly affection : Margherita Paleologa, first Duchess of Mantua -- Appendix I. Wills -- Appendix II. Selected letters of Isabella d'Este and Margherita Cantelma -- Appendix III. Selected letters of Margherita Paleologa.

Summary:

"Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of that city in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century.
Author Sally Hickson combines primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination of a number of visual objects (particularly altarpieces devoted to local beatae, saints and female founders of religious orders) to delineate ties between women both outside and inside the convent walls.
The study contests the accepted perception of Isabella d'Este as a purely secular patron, exposing her role as a religious patron as well. Hickson introduces the figure of Margherita Cantelma and documents concerning the building and decoration of her monastery on the part of Isabella d'Este; and draws attention to the cultural and political activities of nuns of the Gonzaga family, particularly Isabella's daughter Livia Gonzaga who became a powerful agent in Mantuan civic life.
Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua provides insight into a complex and fluid world of sacred patronage, devotional practices and religious roles of secular women as well as nuns in Renaissance Mantua."--Pub. desc.

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ISBN:

9781409427520 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1409427528 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781409427537 (ebook)
1409427536 (ebook)

Subject:

Isabella d'Este, consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1474-1539 Art patronage.
Gonzaga family Art patronage.
Isabella d'Este, markisinna av Mantua, 1474-1539.
Gonzague (Famille) Mécénat.
Gonzaga family.
Isabella d'Este, consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1474-1539
Isabella (Mantua, Markgräfin)
Gonzaga Familie.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Mantua.
Church architecture Italy Mantua.
Art, Renaissance Italy Mantua.
Architecture, Renaissance Italy Mantua.
Christian women saints Cult Italy Mantua.
Women art patrons Italy Mantua.
Art patronage Italy Mantua.
Art and society Italy Mantua.
Architecture chrétienne Italie Mantoue.
Art de la Renaissance Italie Mantoue.
Architecture de la Renaissance Italie Mantoue.
Femmes mécènes Italie Mantoue.
Mécénat Italie Mantoue.
Art et société Italie Mantoue.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Art and society.
Art patronage.
Art, Renaissance.
Christian art and symbolism.
Christian women saints Cult.
Church architecture.
Women art patrons.
Mäzenatentum
Frau
Renaissance
Christliche Kunst.
Kirchenbau.
Heiligenbild.
Konstmecenater.
Konst och religion Italien historia.
Religiösa byggnader historia.
Constitutional law Mantua.
Italy Mantua.
Mantua
Italien Mantua.

Added entries:

Women and gender in the early modern world.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277670
Call No.: BIB 212547
Status: Available