Elisabetta Sirani "Virtuosa" : women's cultural production in early modern Bologna
"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 fro...
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| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout
: Brepols
, c 2014
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| Series: | Late medieval and early modern studies
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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[Rezension von: Adelina Modesti, Elisabetta Sirani 'Virtuosa'. Women's cultural production in early modern Bologna] |
| Author Notes: | by Adelina Modesti |
| 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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| Physical Description: | XLIV, 448 S. Ill |
| ISBN: | 9782503535845 |
