Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances

Gender, Art and Culture in Early Modern Italy

Joyce De Vries (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138254121 (ISBN)

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In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy. Sforza commissioned elaborate artistic and architectural works, participated in splendid civic and religious rituals, and collected a dazzling array of clothing, jewelry, and household goods. By engaging in these realms of cultural production, de Vries suggests, Sforza manipulated masculine and feminine norms of behavior and effectively promoted her social and political agendas. Drawing on visual evidence, inventories, letters, and contemporary texts, de Vries offers a penetrating new interpretation of women's contributions to early modern culture. She explains the correlations between prescriptive literature and women's actions and reveals the mutability of gender roles in the princely courts. De Vries's analysis of Sforza's posthumous legend suggests that what we see as "the Renaissance" was as much a historical invention as a coherent moment in historical time.

Joyce de Vries is an Associate Professor of Art History at Auburn University, USA

Contents: Introduction; Creating a spectacle; Building magnificence; Splendor in the princely court; The cultivation of mind and spirit; The political afterlife of Caterina Sforza; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-13	9781138254121 / 9781138254121
Zustand	Neuware