The devout hand : women, virtue, and visual culture in early modern Italy / Patricia B. Rocco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rocco, Patricia B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Italian--Italy--Bologna--16th century.

Art, Italian.

Art, Italian--Italy--Bologna--17th century.

Bologna (Italy)--Intellectual life--16th century.

Bologna (Italy).

Bologna (Italy)--Intellectual life--17th century.

Bologna (Italy)--History--Papal rule, 1506-1797.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, [Ontario] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Introduction

Bologna as exemplary Counter-Reformation city: an intellectual history of the city and its scholars

Tridentine visual reform in Paleotti's Discorso: the modes of the Artefice Cristiano in theory and practice

Stitching for virtue: women's work in embroidery for the Conservatori of Bologna

Felsina Pittrice: Elisabetta Sirani, her students and circle, and the Maniera Devota

Veronica Fontana and Giuseppe Maria Mitelli: prints, piety, and science in the work of Sirani's students and colleagues

conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2017).

ISBN:

9780773552197

0773552197

9780773552203

0773552200

OCLC:

1035323832