ABSTRACT
This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere.
Adelina Modesti uses Grand Duchess Vittoria as an exemplar of pan-European 'matronage' and proposes a new matrilineal model of patronage in the early modern period, one in which women become not only the mediators but also the architects of public taste and the transmitters of cultural capital. The book will be the first comprehensive monographic study of this important cultural figure.
This study will be of interest to scholars working in art history, gender studies, Renaissance studies and seventeenth-century Italy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|72 pages
Gendered Networks
part 2|56 pages
Self-Fashioning and Display
chapter 5|14 pages
Material Magnificence between the Courts of France and Florence
part 3|76 pages
Cultural Patronage
chapter 8|32 pages
The Female Virtuosa at the Grand Duchess’s Court
part 4|61 pages
Piety and Spiritual Philanthropy