New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1913. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 562 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Appendix: A Selection of Unpublished Documents. Bibliography. Genealogical Tables. Index. Decorative front cover. Front board weak. Wear and tears on the cover. Cartwright Ady was a respected author and authority on art who wrote for leading art periodicals and published 23 books on art and history. Cartwright Ady highlighted the lives of women, including Christina of Denmark, the art-loving Danish expatriate. Julia Mary Cartwright Ady (7 November 1851 – 28 April 1924) was a British historian and art critic whose work focused on the Italian Renaissance. Cartwright Ady was born at Edgcote, Northamptonshire. She was home-schooled in art, literature, languages, dance and music. Cartwright Ady developed a fascination with art early on, particularly of the Italian Renaissance. Her cousin William Cornwallis Cartwright was an art collector and supporter of the Italian Risorgimento, and Cartwright Ady regularly visited his house at Aynhoe Park where she had her first exposure to works of the Old Masters. Her cousin's collection included paintings by Murillo, Canaletto, Spagnoletto and Albano. Cartwright Ady read widely from a young age, covering historical Italian texts, contemporary fiction and British art publications. She admired the poetry of Robert Browning and his collection Men and Women (1855) with its poems ‘Fra Filippo Lippi’ and ‘Andrea del Sarto’, inspired by Italian Renaissance painters, was influential. She was also an avid reader of John Ruskin, George Eliot and early Italian writing and poetry such as by Savonarola and Torquato Tasso. More