Echoes of women's voices : music, art, and female patronage in early modern Florence / Kelley Harness.

"Aristocratic women exerted unprecedented political and social influence in Florence throughout the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. During this period, convents flourished and female members of the powerful Medici family governed the city for the first and only time in its histo...

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第一著者: Harness, Kelley Ann, 1960-
フォーマット: 図書
言語:English
出版事項: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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目次:
  • Modes of artistic communication and perception in early modern Florence
  • "A more than virile prudence" : Archduchess Maria Magdalena
  • Amazons of God : virgin martyr spectacles, 1621-25
  • "Una forte, magnanima, e generosa vedova" : Judith
  • "She hoped to see in the triumphs of religion the triumphs of her house" : epic-chivalric poems and the equestrian ballets
  • "Now it suits me to beseech" : end of the regency, end of a decade (1628-30)
  • "One of the most perfect unions of the spiritual and the temporal imaginable" : the Monastero di Santa Croce
  • "Queens of the Arno" : Medici princesses and the Crocetta
  • Appendix A. Female worthies depicted in lunette frescoes in the audience room, Villa Poggio Imperiale
  • Appendix B. Summary of Book 3 of the "Acts of Paul."