Index. Acknowledgements -- Colour Plates -- Introduction: Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna: A Portrait of the Artist as a Fashionable Young Woman -- Chapter 1. The Illustrious Women of Bologna: Elisabetta Sirani "Exemplum" -- Chapter 2. Public Life, Women's Patronage, and Female Education in Post-Tridentine Bologna -- Chapter 3: Elisabetta Sirani 'Maestra perfetta': Education, Cultural Formation, and Teaching -- Chapter 4. In her Father's Workshop: Elisabetta Sirani's Artistic Formation and Training -- Chapter 5. The Virile Woman: Female Power and Wisdom in Elisabetta Sirani's Representations of Heroic Women -- Chapter 6. The Phallic Paintbrush: Gender and Genius in the Art of Elisabetta Sirani -- Epilogue: In Memoriam -- Catalogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"This is the first monograph in English published on the successful Bolognese seventeenth-century artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-65). Modesti presents Sirani as a 'subject of her own genre', highlighting the painter's innovative qualities, not only in artistic terms, but also from a socio-political and historical perspective. The author's discussion of her material context of women's artistic production and of the Bolognese seventeenth-century cultural world evidences how Sirani epitomized a new model of femininity' and a new rising social genre: the single professional woman. Having been rightly admitted to an artistic, social, and cultural world historically dominated by men, Sirani was an unmarried woman who chose a productive and rewarding career over the traditional role of wife and mother."--Back cover.
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