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Author:

Harness, Kelley Ann, 1960-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xvi, 378 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medici, House of--Art patronage.
Women art patrons--Florence--Florence--History--17th century.
Arts, Italian--Florence--Florence--History--17th century.
Music--Florence--Florence--17th century--History and criticism.
Florence (Italy)--Art patronage.--Art patronage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-367) and index.

Contents:

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".

ISBN:

9780226316598 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226316599 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60375721

LCCN:

2005013127

Locations:

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)