Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace

ISBN-13: 9781138310360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Stefanie Solum

Opis

Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power surrounding the creation of the Medici family altarpiece, Stefanie Solum challenges the received wisdom that women played little part in shaping visual culture in Quattrocento Florence.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the power of female patronage in 15th-century Florence; Saving the Medici; Gendered histories: Lucrezia Tornabuoni’s spiritual activism; Choosing the Child Baptist: beyond a civic icon; From outside in: the Child Baptist, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, and the contemplative turn; Garden, forest, and mountain: navigating the Baptist’s wilderness in the Palazzo Medici Adoration; Lucrezia Tornabuoni, female piety, and the power of patronage; Works cited; Index.

O autorze

Stefanie Solum is Professor of Art History at Williams College, USA.