Women Patrons and Collectors - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1443834645 ISBN 13: 9781443834643

Casa editrice: Cambridge Scholars Pub, 2012

Riassunto

As the present volume shows, women, particularly aristocratic women,not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collections and used them to their own advantage, in order to make statements about their lineage, power,cultural heritage or religious preferences. That is not to say that there was not an increasing number of middle-class women who became draughtswomen, painters and natural scientists and who found it equally beneficial for their chosen profession to collect. In every case, the female collector chose to collect and what to collect; she chose how and where to present the collection and she also decided when to dispose of objects, thereby occasionally taking on a curatorial role. Women have been seen as gatherers of furnishings, jewellery, dress and objects of domestic life.

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Collecting & Display (100 BC to AD1700) is the name of a working group founded by the three editors of this volume in 2004. The group has been running a research seminar at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London from 2005, in Florence from 2008 and has organised international summer conferences from 2006 onwards. The three editors teach at university programmes in the UK, France and Italy and are widely published on the subject of the history of collecting, the display of collections and the art market, including the first two volumes of the present series Collecting & Dynastic Ambition (CSP, 2009) and Collecting & the Princely Apartment (CSP, 2011). For more information please consult www.collectinganddisplay.com.

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• Editore: Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1443834645
• ISBN 13: 9781443834643
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 198
• Redattore: Bracken Susan, Galdy Andrea M., Turpin Adriana