Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna

by Babette Bohn

Book Overview

Winner of the 2022 Prose Award (Art History & Criticism) from the Association of American Publishers

This groundbreaking book seeks to explain why women artists were far more numerous, diverse, and successful in early modern Bologna than elsewhere in Italy. They worked as painters, sculptors, printmakers, and embroiderers; many obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subjects to which women were traditionally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271086963
• ISBN13: 9780271086965
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.1" x 10.1"