TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harness,Kelley Ann
TI  - Echoes of women's voices: music, art, and female patronage in early modern Florence 
SN  - 0226316599 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - NX705.5.I82 F584 2006
U1  - 700/.945/5109032 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Medici, House of
KW  - Women art patrons
KW  - Italy
KW  - Florence
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Arts, Italian
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Florence (Italy)
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Art patronage
N1  - 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"
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005013127.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0664/2005013127-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0664/2005013127-d.html
ER  -