Open AccessWomen of Power: What Women say as Builders of Secular Architecture in Early Modern Italy
Author(s) -
Katharine A. McIver
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2611-3686
pISSN - 0065-0900
DOI - 10.5617/acta.5760
Subject(s) - architecture , listing (finance) , power (physics) , gender studies , sociology , history , political science , business , archaeology , finance , quantum mechanics , physics
This paper will examine several categories of women – wives, widows, rulers, single women – from various regions across Italy to survive the evidence in a comparative format to see just what women were capable of in terms of domestic architecture. Rather than simply listing the women and what they built, I will discuss the types of structures, the women’s hands-on approach to their building campaigns, their sources as funds, and the reasons why they built.