Babette Bohn, professor of art history, Texas Christian University, has published widely particularly on Bolognese art, including books on Guido Reni, Ludovico Carracci, and Federico Barocci. Her current book project is entitled Women Artists, their Patrons, and their Publics in Early Modern Bologna. Raffaella Morselli, professor of art history at Teramo University, has published extensively on Bologna, including books on seventeenth-century collecting of Reni, Albani, and Cantarini and the social history of artists. Her current book project is Bologna distretto delle arti. La società artistica felsinea nel XVII secolo.

"Unger achieves a generous and fresh analysis of this notoriously fraught aspect of seventeenth- century art historiography, which he proves is overdue for revisionist inquiry. He succeeds in demonstrating the vital need to recalibrate the conventional lexicon of terminology typically used to (pejoratively) uphold status quo narratives." -- James R. Jewitt, The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol 3, no2., Summer 2022

• Chapter One - Babette Bohn and Raffaella Morselli, Introduction Chapter Two - Raffaella Morselli, Bologna and Rome: Francesco Albani's Correspondence and Considerations on Art (1627-1659) Chapter Three - Joyce de Vries, Collezionismo in Early Modern Bologna: The Fantuzzi's Drawings and Paintings by Local Masters Chapter Four - Babette Bohn, Collecting Women's Art in Early Modern Bologna: Myth and Reality Chapter Five - Roberta Piccinelli, Bolognese Artists and Paintings in Mantua during the Gonzaga Nevers Period Chapter Six - Barbara Ghelfi, Bolognese Painters in Private Collections in Romagna: The Albicini Marchis Collection in Forlì Chapter Seven - Elena Fumagalli, Bolognese Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Medici Collections Reconsidered (1600-1675), Bibliography, Index