Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna. Babette Bohn. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. xvi + 316 pp. $74.95

Yet we also learn about the power of precedent, increased access to training, and strong community support. Three useful appendixes list all sixty-eight women artists active in Bologna from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, including primary sources (appendix 1), and provide inventories with work by Lavinia Fontana (appendix 2) and Elisabetta Sirani (appendix 3). The second part of the book begins with an assessment of how “patronal heterogeneity” (125) in Bologna benefitted women artists.