Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art
- ISBN-10
- 0719041090
- ISBN-13
- 9780719041099
- Category
- Art, Early Renaissance
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- Christa Grössinger
Description
Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of woodcuts, Grossinger charts how the images of women changed during the late Middle Ages, and exposes the full extent of the mysogyny entrenched in medieval society.
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