Wives, widows, mistresses, and nuns in early modern Italy: making the invisible visible through art and patronage

Contents

Introduction -- Overshadowed, overlooked : historical invisibility. Hidden in plain sight : Varano and Sforza women of the Marche / Jennifer D. Webb -- Pier Maria's legacy : (il)legitimacy, inheritance, and rule of Parma's Rossi dynasty / Timothy McCall -- Rediscovering the Villa Montalto and the patronage of Camilla Peretti / Kimberly L. Dennis -- Becoming visible through portraiture. Rewriting Lucrezia Borgia : propriety, magnificence, and piety in portraits of a Renaissance duchess / Allyson Burgess Williams -- A face in the crowd : identifying the Dogaressa at the Ospedale dei Crociferi / Mary E. Frank -- Vittoria Colonna in Giorgio Vasari's Life of Properzia de' Rossi / Marjorie Och -- Spatial visibility reconstructed. Revisiting the Renaissance household, in theory and in practice : locating wealthy women in sixteenth-century Verona / Alison A. Smith -- An invisible enterprise : women and domestic architecture in early modern Italy / Katherine A. McIver -- Sacred invisibility unveiled. Invisibilia per visibilia : Roman nuns, art patronage, and the construction of identity / Marilyn Dunn -- The Convent of Santa Maria della Sapienza : visual culture and women's religious experience in early modern Naples / Aislinn Loconte.