Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna.

by Babette Bohn

published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021

332 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback. 25 x 22cms.

Study of the 'Bolognese phenomenon' that saw the rise of an unprecedented number of female artists (painters, printmakers, sculptors and embroiderers), with a focus on Lavinia Fontana and Elisabetta Sirani. Discussing the patronage network that bolstered their success and the documentary accounts of contemporary biographers. Including a list of 68 women artists recorded from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. 

Ref: 120837

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