[audiobook] Old Home Love (Gsp- Trade) by Candis Meredith; Andy Meredith in Arts-Photography

Description

Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in)visibility in early modern Italy; the essays in this volume recover those women - wives; widows; mistresses; the illegitimate - who have been erased from history in modern literature; rendered invisible or obscured by history or scholarship; as well as those who were overshadowed by male relatives; political accident; or spatial location. A multi-faceted invisibility of the individual and of the object is the thread that unites the chapters in this volume. Though some women chose to be invisible; for example the cloistered nun; these essays show that in fact; their voices are heard or seen through their commissions and their patronage of the arts; which afforded them some visibility. Invisibility is also examined in terms of commissions which are no longer extant or are inaccessible. What is revealed throughout the essays is a new way of looking at works of art; a new way to visualize the past by addressing representational invisibility; the marginalized or absent subject or object and historical (in)visibility to discover who does the looking; and how this shapes how something or someone is visible or invisible. The result is a more nuanced understanding of the place of women and gender in early modern Italy.