The Agency Of Female Typology In Italian Renaissance Paintings

Author : Edward J. Olszewski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527512849

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The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings by Edward J. Olszewski Pdf

This study employs cognitive theory as a heuristic framework to interrogate the agency of female types in select Italian Renaissance paintings, with emphasis on Venus, Medusa, the Amazon, Boccaccio's Lady Fiammetta/Cleopatra, Susanna, the Magdalene, and the Madonna. The study disrupts assumptions about the identity of sitters and readings of paintings as it challenges paradigms of female representation. It interrogates why certain paintings were crafted, by whom and for whom. Works are placed in the context of meta-painting, with stress on the cognitive decisions negotiated between patron and artist. The ludic aspects of several paintings are examined with a fine grain semiotic approach to expand their iconographies. Psychoanalytic readings are unpacked, based on the flawed mythological metaphors and incomplete clinical studies of Sigmund Freud's theorizing. The rubric of female agency is deliberately selected to unify popular but enigmatic master paintings of disparate subjects.

Author : Paola Tinagli
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 071904054X

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Women in Italian Renaissance Art by Paola Tinagli Pdf

This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. It presents a view of the interaction between artist and patron, and also of the function of these paintings in Italian society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Using letters, poems, and treatises, it examines through the eyes of the contemporary viewer the way women were represented in paintings.

Author : Victoria Ehrlich
Publisher : ProQuest
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0549291687

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Perception and Presentation by Victoria Ehrlich Pdf

Ostensibly, it would seem that during the Renaissance, subjects of mythological origin in the visual arts were almost exclusively created with the male patron in mind. While this is a highly visible trend, it is important to remember that women, too, were spectators of art steeped in mythological imagery in certain spheres and contexts. Cassoni and spalliere were marriage chests and wall panels customarily commissioned for elaborate wedding rituals of the era and were often painted with such stories. To determine how the female gaze differed from its male counterpart in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century, paintings meant for the eyes of a specific couple are most illuminating. A careful examination of frequently depicted mythological subjects and the manner in which they were presented compositionally will therefore allow for some insight into how the primary viewers of these objects perceived the imagery, and whether this supports the notion of a female gaze as separate and different from that of the default male gaze. Conjectures regarding whether it is possible to theorize a gendered way of looking can then be made, and if this is the case, how gender expectations and roles within marriage changed or conditioned the context of the subject that was being viewed. Contemporary texts, treatises, and pamphlets which broach the issue of proper female decorum are used in conjunction with an analysis of the objects and images themselves. This will allow for a discerning look into the politics of marriage, providing a more thorough understanding of how women were expected to conduct themselves, and based on this idealistic view, how mythological paintings found on marriage chests and wall panels would or should have been perceived.

Author : Monika Czekanowska-Gutman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004472662

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Reclaiming Biblical Heroines by Monika Czekanowska-Gutman Pdf

This book examines the iconography of Judith, Esther, and the Shulamite in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first two decades of the twentieth century in the works of the Polish-Jewish artists.

Author : Kevin R. Brine,Elena Ciletti,Henrike Lähnemann
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781906924157

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The Sword of Judith by Kevin R. Brine,Elena Ciletti,Henrike Lähnemann Pdf

The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.

Author : Lilian H. Zirpoli
Publisher : Wapacc Organization
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015068817835

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Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference, October 27-29, 2006 by Lilian H. Zirpoli Pdf

Author : Angela Dressen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108918329

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The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist by Angela Dressen Pdf

Scholars have traditionally viewed the Italian Renaissance artist as a gifted, but poorly educated craftsman whose complex and demanding works were created with the assistance of a more educated advisor. These assumptions are, in part, based on research that has focused primarily on the artist's social rank and workshop training. In this volume, Angela Dressen explores the range of educational opportunities that were available to the Italian Renaissance artist. Considering artistic formation within the history of education, Dressen focuses on the training of highly skilled, average artists, revealing a general level of learning that was much more substantial than has been assumed. She emphasizes the role of mediators who had a particular interest in augmenting artists' knowledge, and highlights how artists used Latin and vernacular texts to gain additional knowledge that they avidly sought. Dressen's volume brings new insights into a topic at the intersection of early modern intellectual, educational, and art history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132702536

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Perkinson,Noa Turel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789004441118

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Picturing Death 1200–1600 by Stephen Perkinson,Noa Turel Pdf

Picturing Death: 1200–1600 brings together essays considering four key centuries of imagery related to human mortality, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture.

Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Online databases
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112364000

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Sociological Abstracts by Leo P. Chall Pdf

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Author : Agnes Lugo-Ortiz,Angela Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107354784

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Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz,Angela Rosenthal Pdf

Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Dissertation abstracts
ISBN : UOM:39015086908194

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American Doctoral Dissertations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ellen Wiley Todd
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520074718

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The "new Woman" Revised by Ellen Wiley Todd Pdf

In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters--Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop--placed their images of modern "new women." Bargain stores, cheap movie theaters, pinball arcades, and radical political organizations were the backdrop for the women shoppers, office and store workers, and consumers of mass culture portrayed by these artists. Ellen Wiley Todd deftly interprets the painters' complex images as they were refracted through the gender ideology of the period. This is a work of skillful interdisciplinary scholarship, combining recent insights from feminist art history, gender studies, and social and cultural theory. Drawing on a range of visual and verbal representations as well as biographical and critical texts, Todd balances the historical context surrounding the painters with nuanced analyses of how each artist's image of womanhood contributed to the continual redefining of the "new woman's" relationships to men, family, work, feminism, and sexuality.

Author : Editor of Res and Associate of Middle American Ethnology Francesco Pellizzi,Jonathan Hay
Publisher : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110142317

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Intercultural China by Editor of Res and Associate of Middle American Ethnology Francesco Pellizzi,Jonathan Hay Pdf

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the history and theory of the arts. Res appears twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The journal is edited by Francesco Pellizzi. More information about Res is available at www.res-journal.org.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, Renaissance
ISBN : 0691114560

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Virtue and Beauty by Anonim Pdf