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Painting --- Este, d', Alfonso --- Titian

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In the construction of a private princely identity before the eyes of a select public in the study rooms of Italian Renaissance rulers, ideals of sober recreation met with leisured reality. 'Echoing Helicon' reconstructs, through the interpretation of painted and intarsia decoration, the roles played by music in such settings.

Music --- mecenaat --- music [discipline] --- studiolos --- patronage --- Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles --- court art --- painting [image-making] --- History of civilization --- Este, d', Alfonso --- Este, d', Leonello --- Este, d', Isabella --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- Studiolos --- Art and music. --- Music in art. --- Musique --- Art et musique --- Musique dans l'art --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Este family --- Este, Leonello d', --- Isabella d'Este, --- Alfonso --- Art patronage. --- music [performing arts] --- Art and music --- Music in art --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Music and art --- Musical iconography --- Social aspects --- History --- History and criticism --- Iconography --- Isabelle d'Este, --- Gonzaga, Isabella d'Este, --- Mantua, Isabella d'Este, --- D'Este Gonzaga, Isabella, --- D'Este, Isabella, --- Este, Isabella d', --- Isabella, --- D'Este, Leonello, --- D'Este, Alfonso --- Este, Alfonso I d', --- Ferrara, Alfonso I d'Este, --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music History & Criticism, General --- Social aspects. --- music [performing arts genre]

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Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the letters that they exchanged over the course of about six years. Beginning in late 1499, Leonardo spent several months in Mantua, where he met Isabella and produced a finished portrait drawing of her. In the years that followed, the marchioness wrote to the artist to ask him to undertake other paintings and projects. Though little came of these requests, da Vinci did produce a drawing of some classical hard-stone vases to assist her search for collectible antiques and also started work on a painting of Christ as a twelve-year-old boy at her request

artistic relations --- Leonardo da Vinci --- Este, d', Isabella

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Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of that city in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. 
Author Sally Hickson combines primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination of a number of visual objects (particularly altarpieces devoted to local beatae, saints and female founders of religious orders) to delineate ties between women both outside and inside the convent walls. 
The study contests the accepted perception of Isabella d'Este as a purely secular patron, exposing her role as a religious patron as well. Hickson introduces the figure of Margherita Cantelma and documents concerning the building and decoration of her monastery on the part of Isabella d'Este; and draws attention to the cultural and political activities of nuns of the Gonzaga family, particularly Isabella's daughter Livia Gonzaga who became a powerful agent in Mantuan civic life. 
Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua provides insight into a complex and fluid world of sacred patronage, devotional practices and religious roles of secular women as well as nuns in Renaissance Mantua

 Introduction: saints and the city

Popular devotion: Isabella d'Este, the Beata Osanna Andreasi and depictions of female sanctity in Mantua

Friendship and devotion: Margherita Cantelma and Isabella d'Este

Partners in piety: Margherita Cantelma, Isabella d'Este and the monastery of Santa Maria della Presentatzione in Tempio in Mantua

Daughters of devotion: Suor Ippolita Gonzaga and Suor Paola Gonzaga in Mantua

Gonzaga family piety and sisterly affection: Margherita Paleologa, first Duchess of Mantua

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patronage --- vrouwengeschiedenis --- Cantelma, Margherita --- Gonzaga [Family] --- Este, d', Isabella --- anno 1400-1499 --- Mantua

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History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Ferrara --- Este family --- Ferrara (Italy) --- Ferrare (Italie) --- Civilization --- Politics and government --- Administration --- 945.45 --- Despotism --- Renaissance --- Este family. --- Civilization. --- Politics and government. --- Ferrara [city]