Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency, Identity 9781351872263, 1351872265

As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the poss

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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Portraiture’s Selves
1 Gender and the Configuration of Early Netherlandish Devotional Skill
2 Productions of Meaning in Portraits of Margaret of York
3 The Posthumous Image of Mary of Burgundy
4 Effaced: Failing Widows
5 Daddy’s Little Girl: Patrilineal Anxiety in Two Portraits of a Renaissance Daughter
6 Engaging Negation in Hans Holbein the Younger’s Portrait of Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan
7 All the Queen’s Women: Female Double Portraits at the Caroline Court
8 Troubling Identities and the Agreeable Game of Art: From Madame de Pompadour’s Theatrical ‘Breeches’ of Decorum to Drouais’s Portrait of Madame Du Barry En Homme
9 Sculpting Her Image: Sarah Siddons and the Art of Self-Fashioning
Bibliography
Index

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WOMEN AND PORTRAITS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series Editors: Allyson Poska, The University of Mary Washington, USA Abby Zanger Women and Gender in the Early Modern World reaches beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Titles in the series Dominican Women and Renaissance Art The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa Ann Roberts Ottoman Women Builders The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan Lucienne Thys-Senocak Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520–1580 Negotiating Power Katherine A. McIver Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture Allison Levy Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530 Experience, Authority, Resistance Andrea Pearson

Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe Gender, Agency, Identity

Edited by ANDREA PEARSON Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA

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