Vittoria della Rovere, an architect of tastes
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Invitation to the January 27th event
Lecture at Il Palmerino on ‘cultural matronage’
“Portrait painting at the court of Vittoria della Rovere” is a lecture by Australian scholar Adelina Modesti, co-organized by AWA and Il Palmerino, on January 27, at the latter’s Florentine cultural center (via Il Palmerino 6). This admission-free event is open to the public and follows the recent publication of Dr. Modesti’s new book, Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Women. The event will begin at 5.30pm. Introductions by Cristina Acidini, Director of the Accademia della Arti del Disegno and AWA director, Linda Falcone. Please RSVP: associazione@palmerino.it Florence lovers know Vittoria della Rovere from the art she commissioned for the Pitti’s Sala delle Allegorie, Poggio Imperiale and Villa La Quiete and scholars of cultural ‘matronage’ may remember her visage from her many portraits authored by Justus Sutermans. Her massive dowry as heir to the della Rovere clan’s Urbino collection marked the beginning of a Medici marriage to Ferdinando II, in which she became a true ‘architect of public taste’ in the seventeenth century.
“Portrait painting at the court of Vittoria della Rovere” is a lecture by Australian scholar Adelina Modesti, co-organized by AWA and Il Palmerino, on January 27, at the latter’s Florentine cultural center (via Il Palmerino 6). This admission-free event is open to the public and follows the recent publication of Dr. Modesti’s new book, Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Women. The event will begin at 5.30pm. Introductions by Cristina Acidini, Director of the Accademia della Arti del Disegno and AWA director, Linda Falcone. Please RSVP: associazione@palmerino.it Florence lovers know Vittoria della Rovere from the art she commissioned for the Pitti’s Sala delle Allegorie, Poggio Imperiale and Villa La Quiete and scholars of cultural ‘matronage’ may remember her visage from her many portraits authored by Justus Sutermans. Her massive dowry as heir to the della Rovere clan’s Urbino collection marked the beginning of a Medici marriage to Ferdinando II, in which she became a true ‘architect of public taste’ in the seventeenth century.