NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the RenaissanceStatue of Dante Aligheri, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
• Women who inspired the Renaissance• Scholasticism• The chivalric literary tradition• Dante Aligheri, 1265-1321• The Divine Comedy• Beatrice Portinari
• Petrarch, 1304-1374• Laura, the muse for his
sonnets• Boccaccio, 1313-1375• Maria, his “fiametta”
NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance
Statue of Niccolo Machiavelli, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
• Women excluded from the Renaissance• Coluccio Salutati, 1330-1406
• “The active life”• Leonardo Bruni, 1370-1444
• Humanism, from humanitatis• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,
1463-1494• Oration on the Dignity of Man
• Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527• The Prince
• Baldassare Castiglione, 1478-1529• The Book of the Courtier
NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance
Portrait of a man and a woman at a casement, Fra Filippo Lippi, c. 1444, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Marriage and/or love in Renaissance Italy• Dowries and dowry funds
• Monte delle Doti of Florence, est. 1425
• Architecture of enclosure• Women as managers of the
household and family• Alessandra Strozzi, fl. 1400-
1450• Affair of Giovanni di Ser Ludovico
della Casa and Lusanna, 1442/3-1454/5
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, built 1489-1538.
NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance
Miniature of Christine de Pizan presenting a book to Queen Isabeau of France, c. 1414, British Library.
• Women as writers and patrons• Christine de Pizan, 1365-1430
• The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405
• The Book of the Body Politic, 1404-1407
• The Tale of Joan of Arc, 1429• Isotta Nogarola, 1418-1466• Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of
Mantua, 1474-1539• Vittoria Colonna, 1492-1547
NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance
The Chess Game, by Sofonisba Anguissola, c. 1555, National Museum, Poznań, Poland.
•Women as artists• Sofonisba Anguissola, ca.
1532-1625• Lavinia Fontana, 1552-
1614
Sofonisba Anguissola: left—Self Portrait at Easel, 1556, Łańcut Palace, Poland; right—Three Children with Dog, by Sofonisba
Anguissola, c. 1580, Collection of Lord Methuen, Corsham Court, Bath.
Sofonisba Anguissola: Portrait of Philip II of Spain (the Prado Philip), 1565, the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
Lavinia Fontana: Left—Self Portrait at the Virginal with a Servant, 1577, Academia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome; right—Portrait of a
Noblewoman, 1580, National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Lavinia Fontana: left—Portrait of the Gozzadini Family, 1584, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna; right—Minerva
Dressing, 1613, Galleria Borghese, Rome.
NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance
Veronica Franco, a 16th century Venetian courtesan, by Tintoretto, 1575, Worcester Art Museum.
• Honored courtesans (cortigiana onesta)• Veronica Franco, 1546-1591