Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence

Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace

• Author(s): Assoc Prof Stefanie Solum,
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Pages: 310
• ISBN_10: 140946203X
  ISBN_13: 9781409462033
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / History / Renaissance , Social Science / Women's Studies , History / Renaissance , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism ,

Description:... Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power surrounding the creation of the Medici family altarpiece, Stefanie Solum challenges the received wisdom that women played little part in shaping visual culture in Quattrocento Florence. Using the altarpiece as a case study, she not only reveals Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici’s agency as an art patron and a power-broker, but offers a new paradigm for the definition of the artist-patron relationship.