The Secret Life Of Sofonisba Anguissola

Author : Melissa Muldoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735176435

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The Secret Life of Sofonisba Anguissola by Melissa Muldoon Pdf

Set in the sixteenth-century, The Secret Life of Sofonisba Anguissola tells the story of a woman's passion for painting and adventure. In a world where women painters had little to no acknowledgment, she was singled out by Michelangelo and Vasari who recognized and praised her talent. Gaining the Milanese elite's acclaim, she went on to become court painter to Spanish King Philip II and taught his queen to paint. One can't live such an extraordinary life without having stories to tell, and tell them Sofonisba does to Sir Anthony Van Dyke, who comes to visit her toward the end of her life. During their meeting, she agrees to reveal her secrets but first challenges the younger painter to find the one lie hidden in her tale. In a saga filled with intrigue, jealousy, buried treasure, unrequited love, espionage, and murder, Sofonisba's story is played out against the backdrop of Italy, Spain, and Sicily. Throughout her life, she encounters talented artists, authoritative dukes, mad princes, religious kings, spying queens, vivacious viscounts, and dashing sea captains-even a Barbary pirate. But of all the people who fell in love with Sofonisba, only one captured her heart. The painter may have many secrets but the truth of her life is crystal clear from the beginning. Always a strong, passionate woman with a dream, she was an intelligent artist who knew her self-worth and in the end, as Michelangelo had done for her, Sofonisba passed her brush to a new generation.

Author : Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031090196

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Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill Pdf

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Cecilia Gamberini
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606069073

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Sofonisba Anguissola by Cecilia Gamberini Pdf

Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1532–1625), an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family, was one of the first women artists to establish an international reputation during her lifetime. This stunningly illustrated monograph explores the evolution of Anguissola’s art from her youth in Cremona through her service as a lady-in-waiting to the Spanish queen Elisabeth of Valois to her later years as a married woman in Sicily and Genoa. Alongside discussions of Anguissola and her work, author Cecilia Gamberini offers a tantalizing exploration of Renaissance court life, detailing how the circles of influence and power operated. This volume highlights the social, political, and cultural preconditions surrounding Anguissola’s role in the court of King Philip II of Spain and her ascent to becoming an internationally acclaimed painter. Gamberini draws on archival documentation, as well as her own original research, to shine a new light on Anguissola’s life, career, and work in this tribute to a truly groundbreaking artist.

Author : Ilya Sandra Perlingieri
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015021542785

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Sofonisba Anguissola by Ilya Sandra Perlingieri Pdf

Traces the life of the Italian artist who was an apprentice to Michelangelo and court painter to King Philip II of Spain, and discusses her major paintings.

Author : David Osborn
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781942267379

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Alicia's Secret by David Osborn Pdf

Alicia, a young American girl in England, visits an old churchyard and evokes Elvira, a sprightly, mischievous young ghost who in turn introduces her to three extraordinary women from three critical moments in history, when each triumphed in a male-dominated society. Considered the greatest English queen, Matilda of Flanders came from Normandy with William the Conqueror and was at the forefront of politics and culture in her era. Sofonisba Anguissola was an accomplished Renaissance artist who studied with Michelangelo and became his protégé, and Lucie Dillon, once a lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette at Versailles, survived the Terror, living in the new United States as a farmer for a time before returning to France to aid Napoleon and Josephine build the social connections they needed to manage their political power. In their own words, these ghostly women describe their widely different lives and loves, and the three periods in which they lived—the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the French Revolution.

Author : Laurence Madeline,Pauline Willis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300223934

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Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 by Laurence Madeline,Pauline Willis Pdf

Paris was the epicenter of art during the latter half of the nineteenth century, luring artists from around the world with its academies, museums, salons, and galleries. Despite the city's cosmopolitanism and its cultural stature, Parisian society remained strikingly conservative, particularly with respect to gender. Nonetheless, many women painters chose to work and study in Paris at this time, overcoming immense obstacles to access the city's resources. 'Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900' showcases the remarkable artistic production of women during this period of great cultural change, revealing the breadth and strength of their creative achievements. Guest Curator Laurence Madeline (Chief Curator at Musées d'art et d'histoire, Geneva) has selected close to seventy compelling paintings by women of varied nationalities, ranging from well-known artists such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Rosa Bonheur, to lesser-known figures such as Kitty Kielland, Louise Breslau, and Anna Ancher.

Author : Mia Kankimäki
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982129200

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The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimäki Pdf

In this “thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women’s studies, and travelogue” (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen—of Out of Africa fame—lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can’t Mia? The Women I Think About at Night is “an astute, entertaining…[and] insightful” (Publishers Weekly) exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see—and change—the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000070263573

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The Tablet by Anonim Pdf

The international Catholic weekly.

Author : Minnie Earl Sears,Marian Shaw,Dorothy Herbert West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic reference sources
ISBN : UVA:X004837792

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Essay and General Literature Index by Minnie Earl Sears,Marian Shaw,Dorothy Herbert West Pdf

Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately).

Author : Theresa Ann Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520932226

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The Emerging Female Citizen by Theresa Ann Smith Pdf

Eighteenth-century Spanish women were not idle bystanders during one of Europe's most dynamic eras. As Theresa Ann Smith skillfully demonstrates in this lively and absorbing book, Spanish intellectuals, calling for Spain to modernize its political, social, and economic institutions, brought the question of women's place to the forefront, as did women themselves. In explaining how both discourse and women's actions worked together to define women's roles in the nation, The Emerging Female Citizen not only illustrates the rising visibility of women, but also reveals the complex processes that led to women's relatively swift exit from most public institutions in the early 1800s. As artists, writers, and reformers, Spanish women took up pens, joined academies and economic societies, formed tertulias—similar to French salons—and became active in the burgeoning public discourse of Enlightenment. In analyzing the meaning of women's presence in diverse centers of Enlightenment, Smith offers a new interpretation of the dynamics among political discourse, social action, and gender ideologies.

Author : Gay Gibson Cima
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107060890

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Performing Anti-Slavery by Gay Gibson Cima Pdf

Performing Anti-Slavery demonstrates how black and white abolitionist women transformed antebellum performance practice into a critique of state violence.

Author : Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis,Pearson/Prentice Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0131817604

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World History: Connections to Today by Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis,Pearson/Prentice Hall Pdf

Author : Patricia Harris
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781609521202

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100 Places in Spain Every Woman Should Go by Patricia Harris Pdf

Patricia Harris began visiting Spain shortly after the death of dictator Francisco Franco and has witnessed the country's renaissance in art, culture, and cuisine as it rejoined Europe. Drawing on three decades of intimate acquaintance with the country, she leads readers along twisting mountain roads, down to the docks of fishing villages, into the shoe outlets of Elche, and out to the muddy saffron fields of La Mancha. She takes you down city streets of Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, and San Sebastian to dark flamenco clubs, sybaritic public baths, endlessly inventive tapas bars, design shops full of mantillas and fans, and into a brightly tiled chocolatería for hot chocolate and churros at 3 a.m. She explores the art from Velázquez to Picasso, architecture from the phantasmagorical vision of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia to the cool suspension spans of Santiago Calatrava. She tells the tales of some formidable Spanish women, from a fourth-century B.C. goddess to a queen who wrested Spain from the Moors, to the twenty-first-century winemakers who elevated Spain's Toro and Rueda onto the world stage. Literary, sexy, whimsical, and even spiritual, 100 Places in Spain Every Woman Should Go is for the smart and curious traveler who wants to see Spain, her way.

Author : Sheila Barker
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606067338

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Artemisia Gentileschi by Sheila Barker Pdf

This second volume in the groundbreaking Illuminating Women Artists series delves into the stirring life and work of the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. The life of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–after 1654) was as exceptional as her paintings. She was a child prodigy, raised without a mother by her artist father, a follower of Caravaggio. Although she learned to paint under her father, she became an artist against his wishes. Later, as she moved between Florence, Rome, Venice, Naples, and London, her artistic style evolved, but throughout her career she specialized in large-scale, powerful, nuanced portrayals of women. This book highlights Gentileschi’s enterprising and original engagement with emerging feminist notions of the value and dignity of womanhood. Sheila Barker’s cutting-edge scholarship in Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for all audiences to appreciate the artist’s pictorial intelligence, as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile career at a time when few women were artists. Bringing to light newly attributed paintings and archival discoveries, this is the first biography to be written by an authority on Gentileschi since 1999. The volume is beautifully illustrated, and Barker weaves this extraordinary story with in-depth discussions of key artworks, such as Susanna and the Elders (1610), Judith Beheading Holofernes (c.1619–20), and Lot and His Daughters (1640–45). Also included is the J. Paul Getty Museum’s recent acquisition, Lucretia (c.1635–45). Through such works, Barker explores the evolution of Gentileschi’s expressive goals and techniques.

Author : Eric H. Boehm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015072423547

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Historical Abstracts by Eric H. Boehm Pdf