Dame che suonano : la musica e il genere nella pittura nel Rinascimento

Ladies Making Music: Music and Gender in Renaissance Painting · The Renaissance portraits of Ladies singing or playing a musical instrument must be interpreted in accordance with the sources that demonstrate how music could be an ambivalent field for women. As a consequence, in this specific case, gender influences the iconography. The risk of introducing a lady with a controversial attribute – as music could be deemed to be for a woman – leads us to believe that, in most cases, the effigies of female musicians must be read as the representation of a type (virtually, with different meanings), not the portrait of a real individual.