Rosalba Carriera

Author : Angela Oberer
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606068601

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Rosalba Carriera by Angela Oberer Pdf

Born in Venice in 1673 to a lawyer and a lace maker, Rosalba Carriera began her career painting decorative objects and rose to international renown as a portraitist in Italy, Germany, France, and England. In 1757 she died nearly blind from cataracts, a tragic end for a painter acclaimed for exquisite miniatures and innovative pastels. During the 1700s she was deemed “the most talented female artist of our century,” so famous that she was referred to by her first name only. Today, however, she is little known outside Venice, despite the attribution to her of more than seven hundred surviving artworks. This accessibly written, gorgeously illustrated biography surveys Carriera’s career, considering her miniatures alongside better-known works of larger scale. Interpreting her oeuvre against the historical context of her experience as a single woman in Venice, the book takes readers through the full arc of her life, including the people she met, her clients, and her artistic approach. Author Angela Oberer’s original iconographic analysis of some of Carriera’s work reveals that she was an erudite painter who drew on antiquity as well as Renaissance precedents such as Leonardo da Vinci and Paolo Veronese. Published in conjunction with the 350th anniversary of her birth, this book is a long overdue tribute to an important and prolific artist.

Author : Angela Oberer
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048541409

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The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) by Angela Oberer Pdf

The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757): The Queen of Pastel is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera. It is also the first scholarly investigation of the external and internal factors that helped to create this female painter's unique career in eighteenth-century Europe. It documents the difficulties, complications, and consequences that arose then -- and can also arise today -- when a woman decides to become an independent artist. This book contributes a new, in-depth analysis of the interplay between society's expectations, generally accepted codices for gendered behaviour, and one single female painter's astute strategies for achieving success, as well as autonomy in her professional life as a famed artist. Some of the questions that the author raises are: How did Carriera manage to build up her career? How did she run her business and organize her own workshop? What kind of artist was Carriera? Finally, what do her self-portraits reveal in terms of self-enactment and possibly autobiographical turning points?

Author : Jane Martineau,Andrew Robison,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain),National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300061864

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The Glory of Venice by Jane Martineau,Andrew Robison,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain),National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Pdf

Venice, home of Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi, was the most artistic city of 18th-century Italy. This beautiful book examines the whole range of the arts in Venice during the period, including paintings, pastels and gouaches, drawings and watercolors, prints and illustrated books and sculpture. Beautifully illustrated.

Author : Paula Findlen,Wendy Wassyng Roworth,Catherine M. Sama
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804759045

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Italy’s Eighteenth Century by Paula Findlen,Wendy Wassyng Roworth,Catherine M. Sama Pdf

In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

Author : Delia Gaze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136599019

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Concise Dictionary of Women Artists by Delia Gaze Pdf

This book includes some 200 complete entries from the award-winning Dictionary of Women Artists, as well as a selection of introductory essays from the main volume.

Author : Philip Lindsay Sohm
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300121237

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The Artist Grows Old by Philip Lindsay Sohm Pdf

How does the artist’s self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of aging. Sohm investigates how art critics, collectors, biographers, and fellow artists dealt with old painters, what mental landscapes preconditioned responses to art by the elderly, and how biology and psychology were co-opted to explain the imprint that artists left on their art. He also looks carefully at the impact of prejudices, stereotypes, and other imaginary truths about old age. For some artists, the problems of old age were related to physical decline—Poussin’s hands became shaky, Titian’s eyesight dimmed. For others, psychological symptoms emerged. The book’s cast of characters includes Michelangelo, the hypochondriac young fogy; Titian, the shrewd marketer of old age; the multiphobic Pontormo; and others. With sensitivity and insight, Sohm uncovers what it meant to be an old artist and how successive generations have looked at the art of an old master.

Author : Delia Gaze
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 1884964214

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Dictionary of Women Artists: Introductory surveys ; Artists, A-I by Delia Gaze Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany),Karl Woermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Painting
ISBN : HARVARD:32044108140294

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Catalogue of the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden by Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany),Karl Woermann Pdf

Author : Letizia Panizza,Sharon Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521578132

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A History of Women's Writing in Italy by Letizia Panizza,Sharon Wood Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive account of writing by women in Italy.

Author : Marco Bussagli,Mattia Reiche
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1402759258

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Baroque & Rococo by Marco Bussagli,Mattia Reiche Pdf

An era of exuberant creativity is the focus of this magnificently illustrated, competitively priced new art book. Baroque art was characterized by unbridled emotion, intricate decorative flourishes, and a dramatic use of light, reaching its summit in works such as Bernini’s magnificent altarpiece, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa. Over time, this robust genre evolved into the more ornate and sensuously playful Rococo, a style epitomized by the opulent paintings of Watteau. This beautifully produced exploration of both movements guides the reader through more than a century of art history--exploring the lives and works of sculptors such as Bernini, painters such as Watteau, Boucher, Rubens, and Hogarth, and architects such as Christopher Wren.

Author : Melissa Hyde,Jennifer Milam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351871723

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Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Melissa Hyde,Jennifer Milam Pdf

The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relatively neglected field within art history. While women's private lives, their involvement with cultural production, the project of Enlightenment, and the public sphere have been the subjects of ground-breaking historical and literary studies in recent decades, women's engagement with the arts remains one of the richest and most under-explored areas for scholarly investigation. This collection of new essays by specialist authors addresses women's activities as patrons and as "patronized" artists over the course of the century. It provides a much needed examination, with admirable breadth and variety, of women's artistic production and patronage during the eighteenth century. By opening up the specific problems and conflicts inherent in women's artistic involvements from the perspective of what was at stake for the eighteenth-century women themselves, it also acts as a corrective to the generalizing and stereotyping about the prominence of those women, which is too often present in current day literature. Some essays are concerned with how women's involvement in the arts allowed them to fashion identities for themselves (whether national, political, religious, intellectual, artistic, or gender-based) and how such self-fashioning in turn enabled them to negotiate or intervene in the public domains of culture and politics where "The Woman Question" was so hotly debated. Other essays examine how men's patronage of women also served as a vehicle for self-fashioning for both artist and sponsor. Artists and patrons discussed include: Carriera; Queen Lovisa Ulrike and Chardin; the Bourbon Princesses Mlle Clermont, Mme Adélaïde and Nattier; the Duchess of Osuna and Goya; Marie-Antoinette and Vigée-Lebrun; Labille-Guiard; Queen Carolina of Naples, Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski of Poland and Kauffman; David and his students, Mesdames Benoist, Lavoisier and Mongez.

Author : Oliver Wunsch
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096674

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A Delicate Matter by Oliver Wunsch Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:$B270654

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Guide to the Royal Collections of Dresden by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465524836

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Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Anonymous Pdf

Author : Maria Marotti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271041254

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Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present by Maria Marotti Pdf