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Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety : Caterina Vigri and the Poor Clares in Early Modern Ferrara by Kathleen Giles Arthur
ISBN: 9789048534999
Publication Date: 2018
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy by Andrea Bayer; Linda Wolk-Simon (Contribution by); Beverly Louise Brown; Nancy Edwards; Everett Fahy; Deborah L. Krohn; Jacqueline Marie Musacchio (Contribution by); Luke Syson (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780300124118
Publication Date: 2008
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A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art by Babette Bohn (Editor); James M. Saslow (Editor); Dana Arnold (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9781444337266
Publication Date: 2013
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
ISBN: 9781789142020
Publication Date: 2021
Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe by Margaret L. King (Editor); Albert Rabil (Editor)
ISBN: 9780226436326
Publication Date: 2007
Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King; Catherine R. Stimpson (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780226436180
Publication Date: 1991
Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I by Gabrielle Langdon
ISBN: 9780802038258
Publication Date: 2006
Artemisia Gentileschi: the Language of Painting by Jesse M. Locker
ISBN: 9780300185119
Publication Date: 2015
Patronage, Gender and the Arts in Early Modern Italy by Katherine A. McIver and Cynthia Stollhans, editors
ISBN: 9781599103068
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Moral Combat : Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature by Gerry Milligan
ISBN: 9781487517274
Publication Date: 2018-12-03
Renaissance Weddings and the Antique : Italian Domestic Paintings from the Lanckoroński Collection by Jerzy Miziolek
ISBN: 9788891312785
Publication Date: 2018-11-30
The Pope's Daughter by Caroline P. Murphy
ISBN: 9780195182682
Publication Date: 2005
The Devout Hand by Patricia Rocco
ISBN: 9780773551381
Publication Date: 2017
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy by Sharon T. Strocchia
ISBN: 9780674241749
Publication Date: 2019
Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence by Sharon T. Strocchia
ISBN: 9780801892929
Publication Date: 2009

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