Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-212) and index.
Contents:
Life at court: Luisa Roldan in Madrid 1689-1706 / Catherina Hall-van den Elsen. Female court artists: women's career strategies in the courts of the Early Modern period / Christina Strunck -- Caterina van Hemessen in the Habsburg Court of Mary of Hungary / Jennifer Courts -- Sofonisba Anguissola, a painter and a lady-in-waiting / Cecilia Gamberini -- Creative reproductions: Diana Mantuana and printmaking at court / Maria F. Maurer -- 'Una persona dependente alla Serenissima Gran Duchessa': female embroiderers and lacemakers between the courts of Florence and France / Adelina Modesti -- Life at court: Luisa Roldan in Madrid 1689-1706 / Catherina Hall-van den Elsen.
Summary:
"This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to women as producers of visual and material culture in the Early Modern European courts, offering fresh insights into the careers of, among others, Caterina van Hemessen, Sofonisba Anguissola, Luisa Roldan, and Diana Mantuana. Also considered are groups of female makers, such as ladies-in-waiting at the seventeenth-century Medici court. Chapters address works by women who occupied a range of social and economic positions within and around the courts and across media, including paintings, sculpture, prints, and textiles. Both individually and collectively, the texts deepen understanding of the individual artists and courts highlighted and, more broadly, consider the variety of experiences of female makers across traditional geographic and chronological distinctions. The book is also accompanied by the "Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts" digital humanities project, extending and expanding the work begun here"--Back cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.