Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

by Ann Roberts (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $151.88

  Identifies some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa. This study examines those objects commissioned for and made by the nuns during the fifteenth century. It offers descriptions of and documentation for the process of patronage as it was practiced by cloistered women, and the making of art in such enclosures.