Echoes of women's voices :

Harness, Kelley Ann, 1960-

Echoes of women's voices : music, art, and female patronage in early modern Florence / Kelley Harness. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - xvi, 378 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music ; 24 cm.

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

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".

0226316599 (hdbk. : alk. paper)

2005013127


Medici, House of--Art patronage.


Women art patrons--History--Italy--Florence--17th century.
Arts, Italian--History--Italy--Florence--17th century.
Music--History and criticism.--Italy--Florence--17th century


Florence (Italy)--Kings and rulers--Art patronage.

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