'Il bel sesso e l'austero Senato': The Coronation of Dogaressa Morosina Morosini Grimani

Wilson, Bronwen (1999) 'Il bel sesso e l'austero Senato': The Coronation of Dogaressa Morosina Morosini Grimani. Renaissance Quarterly, 52 (1). pp. 73-139. ISSN 0034-4338

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Abstract

The Venetian printmaker Giacomo Franco produced several engravings for the 1597 coronation of Morosina Morosini, the wife of doge Marin Grimani (1595-1605). Focusing on three of these prints in which a bird's-eye view of the city is framed with illustrations of the festivities, this essay explores relations between space, gender, allegory and costume as they were manifested in this rare female procession. An examination of the pictorial conventions used by Franco and other artists to depict the event suggests that Morosina's coronation functioned both to resist existing codes of gender but also to reassert female patrician status.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art History and World Art Studies (former - to 2014)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for European and American Art History Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Art History and World Art Studies
Related URLs:	http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2902...
Depositing User:	Katherine Humphries
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2013 15:39
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 09:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40768
DOI:	10.2307/2902017

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