Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Prologue xv
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Frequently Cited Sources and Abbreviations xxii
7. Introduction: Recognizing New Patrons, Posing New Questions 1
8. Fina da Carrara, née Buzzacarini: Consort, Mother, and Patron of Art in Trecento Padua 19
9. Controlling Women or Women Controlled? Suggestions for Gender Roles and Visual Culture in the Italian Renaissance Palace 37
10. The Women Patrons of Neri di Bicci 51
11. Caterina Piccolomini and the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena 77
12. Renaissance Husbands and Wives as Patrons of Art: The Camerini of Isabella d’Este and Francesco II Gonzaga 93
13. Widow, Mother, Patron of Art: Alfonsina Orsini de’ Medici 125
14. Two Emilian Noblewomen and Patronage Networks in the Cinquecento 159
15. Dutiful Widows: Female Patronage and Two Marian Altarpieces by Parmigianino 177
16. Vittoria Colonna and the Commission for a Mary Magdalen by Titian 193
17. Bronzino in the Service of Eleonora di Toledo and Cosimo I de’ Medici: Conjugal Patronage and the Painter-Courtier 225
18. A Medici Miniature: Juno and a Woman with “Eyes in Her Head Like Two Stars in Their Beauty” 263
19. A Widow’s Choice: Alessandro Allori’s Christ and the Adulteress in the Church of Santo Spirito at Florence 301
20. Matrons and Motives: Why Women Built in Early Modern Rome 317
21. About the Contributors 337