Echoes of women's voices : music, art, and female patronage in early modern Florence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harness, Kelley Ann, 1960-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Subjects:	Women art patrons > Italy > Florence > History > 17th century. Medici, House of > Art patronage. Florence (Italy) > Kings and rulers > Art patronage. Arts, Italian > Italy > Florence > History > 17th century. Music > Italy > Florence > 17th century > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

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."