Babette Bohn is Professor of Art History and Affiliate Faculty in Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the author of Le “Stanze” di Guido Reni: Disegni del maestro e della scuola and Ludovico Carracci and the Art of Drawing and coauthor of Federico Barroci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line.
“There is no doubt that Babette Bohn’s much-anticipated book
analyzing the place of creative women in early modern Bologna will
change the way we understand and teach early modern art. Building
on several decades of scholarship on Bolognese women artists, and
women artists more broadly, as well as her own earlier publications
on this and related topics, Bohn assembles the strongest evidence
to date explaining why the city of Bologna was such a centre for
these women.”—Jaqueline Marie Musacchio Renaissance and
Reformation
“Based on many years of archival research, Bohn’s book summarizes
and completes her previous studies on the subject, while also
providing new information and fresh interpretations.”—Patrizia
Cavazzini Burlington Magazine
“By not limiting herself to the famous and successful in making her
basic census . . . and including many names to which no works are
yet attached, [Bohn] aligns her approach with significant recent
developments in the broader social history of Seicento Italian art.
Effecting a quiet revolution, these approaches were unfamiliar even
to feminist scholars searching for unknown women artists fifty
years ago.”—Elizabeth Cropper Oxford Art Journal
“The pan-Italian perspective that Bohn brings to these chapters and
the pleasing clarity of the writing make her volume an optimal
choice for required reading in courses on early women artists and
on Italian baroque art more generally. The volume furnishes a
superb foundation for new investigations of early women artists
anywhere; yet in the case of Bologna, its wide-ranging, simulating,
and exhaustively researched portrayal of the causes, conditions,
and commonalities of women artists is truly an achievement for the
ages.”—Sheila Barker Early Modern Women
“This book is a monumental contribution to a rapidly growing body
of studies on pioneering women artists. It will galvanize this
field with fresh topics of discussion and a rich harvest of new
archival findings.”—Sheila Barker, Founding Director, Jane Fortune
Research Program on Women Artists
“This important study by Babette Bohn, a seasoned art historian and
expert on early modern Bologna, presents a comprehensive, in-depth
picture of ‘the Bolognese phenomenon,’ i.e., the unusual surge of
successful women artists in that Renaissance city. Bohn’s book will
be a valuable resource for scholars and students of art history and
gender studies, and it is likely to become a methodological model
for the study of women artists in other Renaissance cities.”—Mary
Garrard, author of Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in
Renaissance Italy
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