This book considers how writing over the period of a century justified and was affected by the introduction and extension of British domination of India, thus d

To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Co

In looking at the history of collecting, one may be excused for regarding it as an activity in which, traditionally, women have shown little interest or in whic

Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women,

The fourteen essays in this collection explore the dominance of patronage in Renaissance politics, religion, theatre, and artistic life. Originally published in