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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466316003321

Titolo

Women, art and the politics of identity in eighteenth-century Europe / / edited by Melissa Hyde, Jennifer Milam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-23366-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Altri autori (Persone)

HydeMelissa Lee

MilamJennifer Dawn <1968->

Disciplina

759.94

Soggetti

Painting, European - 18th century

Women painters - Europe - History and criticism

Women art patrons - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An Ashgate book"--cover.

First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : art, cultural politics and the woman question / Melissa Hyde and Jennifer Milam -- 2. 'An ornament of Italy and the premier female painter of Europe' : Rosalba Carriera and the Roman academy / Christopher M.S. Johns -- 3. Lovisa Ulrike of Sweden, Chardin and enlightened despotism / Paula Rea Radisich -- 4. Practicing portraiture : Mademoiselle de Clermont and J.-M. Nattier / Kathleen Nicholson -- 5. Commerce in the boudoir / Jill H. Casid -- 6. Matronage and the direction of sisterhood : portraits of Madame Adelaide / Jennifer Milam -- 7. Under the sign of Minerva : Adelaide Labille-Guiard's Portrait of Madame Adelaide / Melissa Hyde -- 8. The cradle is empty : Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Marie-Antoinette, and the problem of intention / Mary D. Sheriff -- 9. Ancient matrons and modern patrons : Angelica Kauffman as a classical history painter / Wendy Wassyng Roworth -- 10. Angelica's odyssey : Kauffman's paintings of Penelope and the weaving of narrative / Angela Rosenthal -- 11. The 'other atelier' : Jacques-Louis David's female students / Mary Vidal -- 12. Goya's portraits of the Duchess of Osuna : fashioning identity in enlightenment Spain / Andrew Schulz.