Gender and the Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia Routledge Research in Gender and Art Series
Auteur : Hall-van den Elsen Catherine
This monograph explores the social constructs surrounding artistic production in early modern Iberia through the lenses of gender and class by examining the rarely considered contribution of creative women in Spain and Portugal between 1550 and 1700.
Using the life-stage framework popular in texts of the period and drawing on a broad spectrum of materials including conduct guidebooks, treatises and conventual rules, this book examines the constraints imposed by gender-related social structures through microhistories of nuns, married, and unmarried women. The text spans class boundaries in its analysis of the work of painters, engravers, and sculptors, many of whom have until now eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications. An extensive bibliography promotes new avenues of inquiry into women?s contributions to the visual arts of the period.
This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, gender studies, women?s history, early modern Iberian studies, and Renaissance studies.
1. Introduction: Early Modern Iberia: Gender and the Woman Artist 2. Women’s Lives. Social and Political Contexts 3. The Unmarried Woman as Artist 4. The Married Woman as Artist 5. The Nun as Artist 6. Conclusions: The Challenges Facing Women Artists
Catherine Hall-van den Elsen, Ph.D., has a long-standing interest in the lives of the women of early modern Spain and Portugal. In 2018, she published a monograph in Spanish on the sculptor Luisa Roldán, in 2020, an annotated bibliography for the Oxford Bibliographies series, and in 2021, the monograph Luisa Roldán for an English-speaking audience.
Date de parution : 01-2024
17.4x24.6 cm
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Mots-clés :
Spain; Portugal; art history; gender; class; women; female; nuns; married women; unmarried women; Renaissance; painters; engravers; sculptors; visual art; patriarchy; agency; culture; society; gender studies; Council of Trent; marriage; Iberian Union; Catholic; religion; Hapsburg; Braganza; Joao IV; Charles II; Philip II; Philip III; Philip IV; church; family; convent; Sor Maria de la Santisima Trinidad; Sor Cecilia del Nacimiento; Sor Maria de San Alberto; Soror Estefania; Soror Juana Baptista; Sor Andrea de Mena; Roldan; Seville; Sevilla; Maria de Morales Valdes; Maria Eugenia de Beer; Ana Heylan; Josefa de Ayala; Sofonisba Anguissola