Women's Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe: Vittoria Della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

ISBN-13: 9781032337432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str.

Adelina Modesti

Opis

This book examines the socio-cultural networks between the courts of Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the international gendered cultural networks developed by Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere.

Spis treści

Part 1 GENDERED NETWORKS

1. Vittoria della Rovere at the Medici Court: A Dynasty of Women.

2. "Le Signore Dame": Vittoria della Rovere and her female courtiers.

3. Gendered Social and Cultural Networks: Italy and Beyond.

Part 2 SELF-FASHIONING and DISPLAY

4. Visual Splendour at the Court of Vittoria della Rovere; the Role of Portraiture. Chapter 5 Material Magnificence between the Courts of France and Florence: Vittoria della Rovere’s French Luxury Imports

6. Sartorial Elegance at the Medici Court: Fashioning the Grand Ducal Family

Part 3 CULTURAL PATRONAGE

7. A Discerning Eye: Vittoria della Rovere’s Art Patronage

8. The female virtuosa at the Grand Duchess’s court: Vittoria della Rovere’s patronage of female artists and other creative women.

9. Architectural Patronage, Interior Design and Decoration

Part 4 PIETY and SPIRITUAL PHILANTHROPY

10. Performing piety: Vittoria della Rovere and the theatre of religious devotion.

11."Sua infocata devotione": Vittoria della Rovere and the Reliquary Chapel of Santa Maria Maddalena de’Pazzi Nobile Fiorentina

12. Vittoria della Rovere’s Spiritual Philanthropy

O autorze

Adelina Modesti is a Honorary Associate in Art History in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University, Melbourne.