Women in the Renaissance had very limited rights and their primary role was to serve as housewives. Peasant women worked alongside their husbands on farms, while middle-class women helped run family businesses. Wealthy women were attended to but had to seek approval from husbands to read, play music, or entertain. Unmarried women lived with male relatives or in convents. A few exceptional women, like Isabella of Castile, Queen Mary I of England, Lucrezia Borgia, and Isabelle D'Este gained influence through marriage to powerful men and some ruled regions during their husbands' absences. Most art from the time depicted women in roles of wives, mothers, or religious figures like the Virgin