Family Matters: Spiritual and Maternal Connections in European Art and Patronage

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Family Matters: Spiritual and Maternal Connections in European Art and PatronageDescription In Premodern Europe, families played a significant role in commissioning artworks as well as in choosing what iconography was used. The nine essays in this volume highlight the often overlooked contributions of matriarchs, actual or iconographic, to this process. They look at mothers, wives, mistresses, sisters, and nuns who served as patrons, models of inspiration, and even as artists themselves. While most maternal imagery was positive,

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