As the present volume shows, women, particularly aristocratic women, not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collection

While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynas

In looking at the history of collecting, one may be excused for regarding it as an activity in which, traditionally, women have shown little interest or in whic

This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage,

This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern