Women And Portraits In Early Modern Europe

Author : Andrea Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351872263

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Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe by Andrea Pearson Pdf

As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. Its nine original essays on Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, France, and England deepen the usefulness of these analytical tools for portraiture. Among the book's broad contributions: it dispels false assumptions about agency's possibilities and limits, showing how agency can be located outside of conventional understanding, and, conversely, how it can be stretched too far. It demonstrates that agency is compatible with relational gender analysis, especially when alternative agencies such as spectatorship are taken into account. It also makes evident the importance of aesthetics for the study of identity and agency. The individual essays reveal, among other things, how portraits broadened the traditional parameters of portraiture, explored transvestism and same-sex eroticism, appropriated aspects of male portraiture to claim those values for their sitters, and, as sites for gender negotiation, resistance, and debate, invoked considerable relational anxiety. Richly layered in method, the book offers an array of provocative insights into its subject.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271042354

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Women and Art in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors, and Connoisseurs by Anonim Pdf

This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern periods. By asking how the perspectives and experiences of female patrons contributed to the invention of particular styles or iconographies, or how they shaped taste, or how they influenced demand, these twelve original essays introduce significant new information about specific women patrons while raising theoretical issues for patronage studies more generally. While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynastic promotion, at the same time the women involved devised strategies that circumvented these rules, allowing them to explore the potential or art as a means of proclaiming their own identity and taste.

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108496995

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Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Merry E. Wiesner Pdf

This new edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to reflect the newest scholarship in every chapter.

Author : Cissie C. Fairchilds
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Women
ISBN : UVA:X004832762

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Women in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 by Cissie C. Fairchilds Pdf

In this wide-ranging volume, Cissie Fairchilds rejects conventional accounts of the Early Modern period that claim it was a period of diminishing power and rights for European women. Instead, she shows that it was a period of positive changes that challenged and led to the eventual destruction of traditional misogynist notions that women were inferior to men. The book explores the historical basis of patriarchal views of women and describes the great intellectual debate over the nature and roles of women taking place at the time. It gives an account of women's daily lives and looks at women's work during the period. The book also deals with the role of women in religion and with witchcraft and the prosecution of women as witches. The book concludes by examining the relationship between women and the State.

Author : Christine Meek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Renaissance
ISBN : UCSC:32106016212828

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Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe by Christine Meek Pdf

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521873727

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Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Merry E. Wiesner Pdf

The third edition of Merry Wiesner-Hanks' prize-winning book incorporates the newest scholarship and features a new chapter on gender and race in the colonial world; expanded coverage of eighteenth century developments including the Enlightenment; and enhanced discussions of masculinity, single women, same-sex relations, humanism, and women's religious roles.

Author : Sarah Joan Moran,Amanda C. Pipkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004391352

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Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500 - 1750 by Sarah Joan Moran,Amanda C. Pipkin Pdf

Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the North and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the South. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women’s experiences of social class, as family members, before the law, and as authors, artists, and patrons, as well as the workings of gender in art and literature. In studies ranging from microhistories to surveys, the book reveals the Low Countries as a remarkable historical laboratory for its topic and points to the opportunities the region holds for future scholarly investigations. Contributors: Martine van Elk, Martha Howell, Martha Moffitt Peacock, Sarah Joan Moran, Amanda Pipkin, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Margit Thøfner, and Diane Wolfthal.

Author : Susan Broomhall,Stephanie Tarbin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0754661849

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Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe by Susan Broomhall,Stephanie Tarbin Pdf

Exploring the contradictory forces shaping women's identities and experiences, this collection examines the possibilities for commonalities and the forces of division between women in early modern Europe. The contributors analyse the critical power of gender to structure identities and experiences, adding new depth to our understanding of early modern women's senses of exclusion and belonging.

Author : Mary D. Garrard
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789142396

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Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard Pdf

An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she is celebrated by feminist critics and scholars. This book breaks new ground by placing Gentileschi in the context of women’s political history. Mary D. Garrard, noted Gentileschi scholar, shows that the artist most likely knew or knew about contemporary writers such as the Venetian feminists Lucrezia Marinella and Arcangela Tarabotti. She discusses recently discovered paintings, offers fresh perspectives on known works, and examines the artist anew in the context of feminist history. This beautifully illustrated book gives for the first time a full portrait of a strong woman artist who fought back through her art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Authority in art
ISBN : 9461664532

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Portraits and Poses by Anonim Pdf

The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. 'Portraits and Poses' adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600-1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.

Author : Anne J. Cruz,Mihoko Suzuki
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780252076169

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The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe by Anne J. Cruz,Mihoko Suzuki Pdf

A transnational comparison of women rulers and women's sovereignty throughout Europe

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Authority in art
ISBN : 9461664540

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PORTRAITS AND POSES by Anonim Pdf

The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. 'Portraits and Poses' adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600-1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.

Author : Jane Couchman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041054

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Jane Couchman Pdf

Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.

Author : Allison Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351872980

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Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe by Allison Levy Pdf

Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widows within society, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe is the first book to consider the distinct and important relationship between ritual and representation. The fifteen new interdisciplinary essays assembled here read widowhood as a catalyst for the production of a significant body of visual material-representations of, for and by widows, whether through traditional media, such as painting, sculpture and architecture, or through the so-called 'minor arts,' including popular print culture, medals, religious and secular furnishings and ornament, costume and gift objects, in early modern Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Arranged thematically, this unique collection allows the reader to recognize and appreciate the complexity and contradiction, iconicity and mutability, and timelessness and timeliness of widowhood and representation.

Author : Karen Nelson
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611494457

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Attending to Early Modern Women by Karen Nelson Pdf

A global, interdisciplinary consideration of the relationship between war and women's lives, works, economic situations, religious affiliations and practices in the early modern period, this volume gathers together scholars from literary studies, history, religious studies, and musicology. The juxtapositions, for example, of the impact of religious and economic strife emerging from the violence between European Catholics and Protestants, the civility in Grenada enhanced by Islamic religious codes, and the negotiations between Islamic and Catholic Malaysians, provide specific, telling windows into the complexities of women's lived experiences from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.