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

Rocco, Patricia, author

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\"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 art criticism, despite the fame they attained during their lifetimes. What were the factors that contributed to Bologna's unique confluence of women with art, science, and religion? The Devout Hand explores the work of two generations of Italian women artists in Bologna, from Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), whose career emerged during the aftermath of the Counter -Reformation, to her brilliant successor, Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), who organized the first school for women artists. Patricia Rocco further sheds light on Sirani's students and colleagues, including the little-known engraver Veronica Fontana and the innovative but understudied etcher Giuseppe Maria Mitelli. Combining analysis of iconography, patronage, gender, and reception studies, Rocco integrates painting, popular prints, book illustration, and embroidery to open a wider lens onto the relationship between women, virtue, and the visual arts during a period of religious crisis. A reminder of the lasting power of images, The Devout Hand highlights women's active role in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Christian reform and artistic production.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Subject: Art, Italian Italy Bologna 16th century. / Art, Italian Italy Bologna 17th century. / Women artists Italy Bologna History 16th century. / Women artists Italy Bologna History 17th century. / Women artists Italy Bologna Intellectual life 16th century. / Women artists Italy Bologna Intellectual life 17th century. / Bologna (Italy) Intellectual life 16th century. / Bologna (Italy) Intellectual life 17th century. / Bologna (Italy) History Papal rule, 1506-1797.
• ISBN: 9780773551381, 0773551387

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N6921.B7 R63 2017	1	BOOK	ARTS