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The devout hand : women, virtue, and visual culture in early modern Italy /

"After the Counter-Reformation, the Papal State of Bologna became a hub for the flourishing of female artistic talent. The eighteenth-century biographer Luigi Crespi recorded twenty-three women artists working in the city, although many of these, until recently, were lost and ignored by modern...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rocco, Patricia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
Series:desLibris. Books collection.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Bologna as Exemplary Counter-Reformation City: An Intellectual History of the City and Its Scholars
  • 2. Tridentine Visual Reform in Paleotti's Discorso: the Modes of the Artefice Cristiano in Theory and Practice
  • 3. Stitching for Virtue: Women's Work in Embroidery for the Conservatori of Bologna
  • 4. Felsina Pittrice: Elisabetta Sirani, Her Students and Circle, and the Maniera Devota
  • 5. Veronica Fontana and Giuseppe Maria Mitelli: Prints, Piety, and Science in the Work of Sirani's Students and Colleagues.