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This collection of new essays by specialist authors addresses women's activities as patrons and as patronized artists over the course of the eighteenth century.

The age of enlightenment and revolution was a deeply complex period of dramatic ruptures and epistemic shifts. This has long been acknowledged by academics and

The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the a

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' en

Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion