Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna Linda Curran Serov rose to become Russia's

Serov rose to become Russia's first significant music critic and a noted composer whose three operas won him fame and gestured toward the creation of a national style

and a recognition of its increasingly rarefied qualities

He is proof that one should never give up

to improving a good sense of humour

They are on par with popular entertainers and athletes in the African American community as cultural icons even as they are criticized by others for taking advantage of the devout in order to subsidize their lavish lifestyles

Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna Linda Curran Serov rose to become Russia'sThis groundbreaking book seeks to explain why women artists were far more numerous, diverse, and successful in early modern Bologna than elsewhere in Italy. They worked as painters, sculptors, printmakers, and embroiderers; many obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subjects to which women were traditionally confined. Babette Bohn asks why that was the case in this particular place and at this particular time. Drawing on