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Books of Art: 20 Medieval and Renaissance Women Reading

April 12, 2015 By Medievalists.net

Saints Christina and Ottilia by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1506)

I love to read. I also love books depicted in art. I became fascinated with Medieval and Renaissance pictures of women reading or with books. I noticed while I was walking around the National Gallery, Musèe Cluny and the Louvre recently that there are many beautiful images of women reading or with books. Saints, sinners, and laywomen; I wanted to share a few of my favourites. Here are 20 works of art of women and their books

Filed Under: Features, Places To See Tagged With: Antwerp, Art History, Belgium, Book, Early Modern, Early Netherlandish painting/Flemish Primitives, England, Florence, France, Gender, Germany, Hagiography, Italy, Late Middle Ages, Literature, London, Mannerism, Mary Magdalene, Medieval Women, Milan, Modena, Paris, Parma, Renaissance, Saint Barbara, Saint Margaret of Antioch, St. Catherine of Alexandria

Does a Reformation End?: Rethinking Religious Simulation in Sixteenth-Century Italy

October 21, 2014 By Medievalists.net

The Council of Trent, 1545 - 1563

A paper examining the Italian Reformation.

Filed Under: Articles, Conferences, Features Tagged With: Calvinist, Christianity, Conferences, Cosimo I de' Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany, Council of Trent, Counter Reformation, Early Modern, Ecclesiastical History, Exile, Fifteenth Century, Francesco Spiera, Geneva, Heresy, Humanism, Inquisition, Italian Reformation, Italy, John Calvin, Juan de Valdés, Late Middle Ages, Luther, Modena, Niccolo Balbani, Nicodemism, Papacy, Pietro Carnesecchi, Pope Pius V, Protestant, Reformation, Religious Life, Renaissance, Sixteenth Century, St. Bartholemews Day Massacre, Switzerland, The French Wars of Religion, Theology