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Article: Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2002
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Sheryl E. Reiss and David G. Wilkins, eds., Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy
(Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, 54.) Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2001. xxiii + 339 pp. $50 (cl), $35 (pbk). ISBN: 0-943549-78-7 (cl), 0-943549-88-4 (pbk).
In fourteen substantial essays Reiss, Wilkins, and their collaborators offer rich new evidence for the activity of secular women in the production and reception of Italian Renaissance art, calling into serious question traditional stereotypes of female patronage and reconceptualizing art patronage itself. In studies ranging from Trecento Padua to late sixteenth-century ...