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Engendering Italian Renaissance art — a bibliographic review*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

Evelyn Welch
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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 68 , November 2000 , pp. 201 - 216
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I would like to thank my colleagues, Dr Liz James and Professor Deborah Cherry, for their comments and help with this article and Dr Kate Lowe for suggesting the original idea and providing useful insights.

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