Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances
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courtly material culture
della
Della Robbia
Della Robbia Workshop
early modern consumption
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female agency in Renaissance courts
gender performativity
giovanni
Giovanni De
Giovanni Delle Bande Nere
Giovanni Di Pierfrancesco
girolamo
Girolamo Riario
Gold Brocade
Italian noblewomen history
Large Scale Architectural Projects
Medici Inventories
Palazzo Altemps
Palazzo Pubblico
Piano Nobile
pierfrancesco
Pietro Riario
Portrait Medal
raffaele
Raffaele Riario
religious
Religious Patronage
Renaissance women patrons
riario
robbia
Salt Cellars
San Biagio
San Mercuriale
San Secondo
Santa Maria Della Pace
Sistine Rome
sixtus
Sixtus IV
Triumphal Cart
visual culture analysis
workshop
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754667513
- Weight: 839g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy. Sforza commissioned elaborate artistic and architectural works, participated in splendid civic and religious rituals, and collected a dazzling array of clothing, jewelry, and household goods. By engaging in these realms of cultural production, de Vries suggests, Sforza manipulated masculine and feminine norms of behavior and effectively promoted her social and political agendas. Drawing on visual evidence, inventories, letters, and contemporary texts, de Vries offers a penetrating new interpretation of women's contributions to early modern culture. She explains the correlations between prescriptive literature and women's actions and reveals the mutability of gender roles in the princely courts. De Vries's analysis of Sforza's posthumous legend suggests that what we see as "the Renaissance" was as much a historical invention as a coherent moment in historical time.
Joyce de Vries is an Associate Professor of Art History at Auburn University, USA
