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Article: Defining the Renaissance "Virtuosa": Women Artists and Language of Art History and Criticism.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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Fredrika H. Jacobs, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 32 pls. + xii + 229 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-521-57270-3.
These books make ambitious inquiries into sixteenth-century Italian art theory; they have, in common, a desire to determine what is meant by the terminology that theoreticians used and how such art theory relates to other systems of knowledge organization. Both books look backwards and forwards, drawing upon the ancient frameworks that propelled much Renaissance thought as well as making claims about the importance of sixteenth-century theory to the subsequent development of the discipline of art history.
Williams, in what he ...