The social lives of paintings in Sixteenth-Century Venice Kessel, E.J.M. van

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This thesis was written in the context of the research programme Art, Ag- ency, and Living Presence in Early Modern Italy, based at Leiden University and funded by the Netherlands

but as it will turn out, all nexuses are also connected, as some artists, patrons, and prototypes turn up again and again. The book is more or less structured chronologically, but

81 To find these men, I have made grateful use of Maria Elena Massimi’s ‘Indice alfabetico dei confratelli di governo della Scuola Grande di San Rocco, 1500-1600’ (in: idem,

47 And so it happened; but the horizontal format of the painting, Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child with saints, angels and Doge Barbarigo (nowadays Murano, S.

Irene di Spilimbergo as an ‘example… of women’s creative possibilities’ (Schutte, ‘The Image of a Creative Woman’, pp. 48 and further; for the quote see p. 143 Rime … in

Among these letters is a significant group written by Francesco Bembo, who in the later 1580s wrote the grand duchess with an almost ob- sessive regularity about her

That, around 1550, the painting came to be regarded as a product of a con- temporary artist, put Christ as the prototype at a distance – although we may wonder whether this is true