Who were the secular female patrons of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy beyond Isabella d'Este? This volume brings together fourteen essays which examine the important and often unrecognized roles aristocratic and bourgeois women played in the patronage of visual culture during the Italian Renaissance. Themes include the significance of role models for female patrons, the dynamics of conjugal patronage, and the widespread patronage activities of widows.

Collectively, the essays demonstrate how resourceful women expressed themselves through patronage despite the limitations of a highly structured patriarchal society. Thus, Isabella d'Este was by no means unique as a secular female patron, and the studies offered here should encourage scholars to move further 'beyond Isabella' in their assessment of women's patronage of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy.

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COVER Front
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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Recognizing New Patrons,Posing New Questions
Chapter 2: Fina da Carrara, née Buzzacarini: Consort, Mother, and Patron of Art in Trecento Padua
Chapter 3: Controlling Women or Women Controlled ? Suggestions for Gender Roles and Visual Culture in the Italian Renaissance Palace
Chapter 4: The Women Patrons of Neri di Bicci
Chapter 5: Caterina Piccolomini and the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena
Chapter 6: Renaissance Husbands and Wives as Patrons of Art :The Camerini of Isabella d’Este and Francesco II Gonzaga
Chapter 7: Widow, Mother, Patron of Art: Alfonsina Orsini de’ Medici
Chapter 8: Two Emilian Noble women and Patronage Networks in the Cinquecento
Chapter 9: Dutiful Widows: Female Patronage and Two Marian Altarpieces by Parmigianino
Chapter 10: Vittoria Colonna and the Commission for a Mary Magdalen by Titian
Chapter 11: Bronzino in the Service of Eleonora di Toledo and Cosimo I de’ Medici: Conjugal Patronage and the Painter-Courtier
Chapter 12: A Medici Miniature:J uno and a Woman with “ Eyes in Her Head Like Two Stars in Their Beauty
Chapter 13: A Widow’s Choice: Alessandro Allori’s Christ and the Adulteress in the Church of Santo Spirito at Florence
Chapter 14: Matrons and Motives: Why Women Built in Early Modern Rome

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