March 5 - 9 2012 and March 4 - 8 2013
Women in Renaissance Art
Through lectures, site visits to museums and churches, and informal discussions, we will consider how women are portrayed in Italian Renaissance art.
We begin with the way women are depicted within the restraints of the religious subject matter which dominated art production in the early Renaissance period and beyond. The ubiquitous image of the Virgin Mary will serve as a starting point in this analysis.
Portraiture in painted, sculpted and medal form is a dominant theme taking us from the traditional profile betrothal portraits of the quattrocento, to the later images of status, power and intellect.
Special attention will be given to Renaissance domestic interiors through the study of marriage paintings, wedding chests (cassoni) and birth salvers (deschi da parto) which sometimes reveal unexpected aspects of the sexual mores of the period within marriage and outside it. By the sixteenth century erotic subject matter in art became more common, especially in the sophisticated milieu of the princely courts.
Women as patrons of art in their own right, particularly among the ruling families of Italian city states, will be examined through the example of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua and, in the sixteenth century, Eleonora of Toledo, beloved consort of Granduke Cosimo de’Medici.
Sample programme attached below.
Calendar
| from | to | days | hours | fee (€) | combined with | note |
| 05/03/2012 | 09/03/2012 | 450,00 | ||||
| 04/03/2013 | 08/03/2013 | 450,00 |