Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0877285

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0877285

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Mapping Matrons: Women's Cultural Patronage Networks in Seventeenth Century Northern Italy: from Maria Cristina of Savoy to Vittoria della Rovere. This project adds an important historical dimension to contemporary debates concerning social capital and female leadership. It retrieves women's significant public engagement and community building in the realm of public taste. Historical precedents show how female networks and agency contribute to the community and public sector. Women's networks of taste shaped human creativity then...and now. This study will illuminate how our culture (and democracy) emerged in gendered networks of cultural exchange. The project also contributes to Australia's international reputation for high-quality scholarship on early modern Europe, and adds another dimension to cultural and gender studies in this country.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 28-07-2008

End Date: 27-07-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $258,572.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Art History And Appreciation | History: European

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Families | Gender |

Other Keywords

Art History And Appreciation | Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Families | Gender | Historical Studies | History: European | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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