Widowhood and visual culture in early modern Europe / edited by Allison Levy.

Incluye bibliografía.

Widow´s peek: looking at ritual and representation / Allison Levy -- ´Widowhood was the time of her greatest perfection´: ideals of widowhood and sanctity in Florentine Art / Catherine Lawless -- Memento Mori: death, widowhood and remembering in early modern England / J.S.W. Holt -- Mourning widows: portraits of widows and widowhood in funeral sermons from Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel / Marina Arnold -- Casting her widowhood: the contemporary and posthumous portraits of Caterina Sforza / Joyce de Vries -- A widow´s tears, a queen´s ambition: the variable history of Marie de Médicis´s bereavement / Elizabeth McCartney -- Conceptualizing the Kaiserinwitwe: Empress Maria Theresia and her portraits / Michael E. Yonan -- Individual fame and family honor: the tomb of Dogaressa Agnese da Mosto Venier / Holly S. Hurlburt -- Margaret of Austria and the encoding of power in patronage: the funerary foundation at Brou / Laura D. Gelfand -- A widow building in Elizabethan England: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall / Sara French -- Constructing convents in sixteenth-century Castile: Toledan widows and patterns of patronage / Stephanie Fink de Backer -- Trescento Rome: the poetics and politics of widowhood / Cristelle L. Baskins -- Framing widows: mourning, gender and portraiture in early modern Florence / Allison Levy -- Contested narratives: Elisabeth of Austria and a relic of St Leopold / Amelia Carr -- Last rites: mourning identities(?) / Allison Levy.