As the present volume shows, women, particularly aristocratic women, not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collection

This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern

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

This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern