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Record Number:
9890
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Ajmar , Marta.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Exemplary Women in Renaissance Italy: Ambivalent Models of Behaviour? [the author argues that exemplary women from the classical past and from the ranks of the saints often embodied values that were more advanced than those in Italian Renaissance society; figures like Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus renowned for her eloquence, were reinterpreted to emphasize her domestic and maternal strengths rather than her public skills in oratory; the author concludes, "The consideration of exemplary women actually enlarged the boundaries of the Renaissance notion of woman and generated a reappraisal of a woman's capacity for attaining virtue--but not her status or her role in society." (Page 260)].
Source:
Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Edited by Letizia Panizza. European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Pages 244 - 264.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Catalogs in Literature
Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint
Cornelia, Ancient Roman Matron
Education
Famous Women
Human Behavior
Morality in Literature
Role Models
Women in Literature
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
15- 16
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Six illustrations. Figure One Domenico Beccafumi, "Cornelia," panel painting, circa 1519 (Rome, Galleria Doria-Pamphili). Figure Two Anonymous artist, "Woman Reading," woodcut in Fra Filippo Foresti, "De plurimus claris selectisque mulieribus" (Ferrara, 1497), fol. clir (London, British Library). Figure Three Giovanni Sogliani, "St. Catherine," panel painting, circa 1530 (Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera). Figure Four Masolino da Panicale, "Disputation of St. Catherine" (detail), fresco, circa 1429- 1432 (Rome, S. Clemente). Figure Five Jacopo Tintoretto, "Disputation of St. Catherine," painting on canvas, 1582- 1585 (Venice, S. Caterina). Figure Six Anonymous artist, "Cassandra Fedele," woodcut in Fra Filippo Foresti, "De plurimus claris selectisque mulieribus" (Ferrara, 1497), fol. clivv (London, British Library).
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Author's Affiliation:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2000.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
1900755092