Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400–1700

Erin J. Campbell is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Victoria, Canada. Stephanie R. Miller is Assistant Professor of Art History at Coastal Carolina University, USA. Elizabeth Carroll Consavari is Lecturer in Art History at San Jose State University, USA.

'A short review cannot do justice to the breadth and depth of quality research in this book. It provides an excellent account of the field and it deserves to be highly regarded.' Parergon'As with the theme itself, the book’s audience is wide, encompassing art, architectural, and cultural historians who, like its editors and contributors, wish to “breathe a little social life in the Renaissance palace” (Richard Goldthwaite, Wealth and Demand for Art in Italy, 1300 –1600 [1995], qtd. in 1). This is certainly achieved insofar as the variety of topics examined and the richness of the scholarship, including ways of interpreting inventories, are concerned. ...A collection of such scholarship makes an important contribution to increasingly developing studies on material culture and indeed furnishes our understanding of domesticity in the early modern period.' Renaissance Quarterly

• Introduction: Old women, portraiture, and the early modern domestic interior; Portraits of old women and the domestic meshwork; Prophets and saints; Matriarchs; Old women in frames; Old age, women, and the signs of suffering; Selected bibliography; Index.