Women, Virtue, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Italy
by
Patricia Rocco
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
After the Counter-Reformation, the Papal State of Bologna became a hub for the flourishing of female artistic talent. The eighteenth-century biographer Luigi Crespi recorded over twenty-eight women artists working in the city, although many of these, until recently, were ignored by modern art criticism,...