Review of Kelley Harness. 2006. Echoes of Women’s Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press

Echoes of Women’s Voices is an absorbing study of female self-fashioning in early modern Florence that documents successes and mishaps in the patronage strategies of women regents and women religious. The main focus is on Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria, widow of Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand...

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Main Author: Melanie L. Marshall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2006-09-01
Series:Current Musicology
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5084