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Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe

Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

Adelina Modesti

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English
Routledge
16 December 2019
This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere.

Adelina Modesti uses Grand Duchess Vittoria as an exemplar of pan-European 'matronage' and proposes a new matrilineal model of patronage in the early modern period, one in which women become not only the mediators but also the architects of public taste and the transmitters of cultural capital. The book will be the first comprehensive monographic study of this important cultural figure.

This study will be of interest to scholars working in art history, gender studies, Renaissance studies and seventeenth-century Italy.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 174mm, 
Weight:   929g
ISBN:   9781138712522
ISBN 10:   1138712523
Series:   Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Pages:   298
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary ,  A / AS level
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

Reviews for Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe: Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

"""Meticulously researched ... This thought-provoking examination of Vittoria della Rovere’s cultural and gendered patronage is a welcome addition to the ongoing discussions of the Medici women and the Medici family and to the flourishing scholarly discourse on women leaders, their patronage networks, their patronage, and, most importantly, their matronage."" --Renaissance Quarterly ""...A cogent, well-structured monograph. ... What stood out for this reader was Modesti’s ability to weave personal agency within group and familial structures. In addition to its considerable content, this volume exemplifies an approach that eschews the Romantic and post-Romantic fixation on the (typically male) individual to consider the many structures within which actions take place and highlight how people acted within them."" --Early Modern Women ""Meticulously researched ... This thought-provoking examination of Vittoria della Rovere’s cultural and gendered patronage is a welcome addition to the ongoing discussions of the Medici women and the Medici family and to the flourishing scholarly discourse on women leaders, their patronage networks, their patronage, and, most importantly, their matronage."" --Renaissance Quarterly ""...A cogent, well-structured monograph. ... What stood out for this reader was Modesti’s ability to weave personal agency within group and familial structures. In addition to its considerable content, this volume exemplifies an approach that eschews the Romantic and post-Romantic fixation on the (typically male) individual to consider the many structures within which actions take place and highlight how people acted within them."" --Early Modern Women"


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