Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2902
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Tinagli , Paola
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  • Title: Womanly Virtues in Quattrocento Florentine Marriage Furnishings [the author examines how behavioral ideals for both new husbands and wives, as represented on cassoni, spalliere, and other furnishings given to the bridal couple, emphasized chastity, restraint, and other virtues that contributed to a well-ordered civic society].
  • Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society.  Edited by Letizia Panizza.  European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000.  Pages 265 - 284.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Art History- Decorative Arts Art History- Painting Cassoni, Marriage Chests Family Florence Furniture Human Behavior Marriage Masculinity Spalliere, Painted Panels Women in Art Workshop of Sandro Botticelli- Spalliere, Painted Panels- Story of Lucretia Wo
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 15
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  • Illustrations: Six illustrations. Figure One Workshop of Botticelli, "The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti," Part I, panel painting, circa 1482- 1483 (Madrid, Museo del Prado). Figure Two Workshop of Botticelli, "The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti," Part II, panel painting, circa 1482- 1483 (Madrid, Museo del Prado). Figure Three Workshop of Botticelli, "The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti," Part III, panel painting, circa 1482- 1483 (Madrid, Museo del Prado). Figure Four Workshop of Botticelli, "The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti," Part IV, panel painting, circa 1482- 1483 (private collection). Figure Five Workshop of Botticelli, "The Story of Lucretia," panel painting, circa 1500 (Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum). Figure Six Workshop of Botticelli, "The Story of Virginia," panel painting, circa 1500 (Bergamo, Accademia Carrara).
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  • Author's Affiliation: Edinburgh College of Art
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 1900755092