Seminar 05
Female Artists
Seminar questions
- Were female artists 鈥渘ovelties鈥� in the early modern period?
- Did women artists conform to male expectations?
- Was self-presentation more important for female than male artists?
- Can we detect a 鈥済endering鈥� of art in the early modern period?
- What can we learn about the situation of women in the early modern period by studying the lives of female painters?
Websites
Amanda Vickery, The Story of Women and Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OWPhR64tZk
Suggested reading
Broude, Norma – Garrard, Mary D. (eds), Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, New York 1982, chs. 8-10, essays by Garrard, Fox Hofrichter, Alpers [N 72.F3]
Broude, Norma – Garrard, Mary D. (eds), Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, Berkeley-Los Angeles 2005, chs. 3-4, essays by Garrard, Bohn [N 72.F3]
Cohen, Elizabeth, 鈥楾he Trials of Artemisia Gentileschi: A Rape as History鈥�, Sixteenth Century Journal, 31 (2000), pp. 47-75 [Jstor]
Garrard, Mary, 鈥楢rtemisia Gentileschi鈥檚 Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting鈥�, Art Bulletin, 62 (1980), pp. 97-112 [Arts Periodicals]
Garrard, Mary, Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, Princeton 1988 [ND 623.G3]
Garrard, Mary D., 鈥楬ere鈥檚 Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist鈥�, Renaissance Quarterly, 47 (1994), pp. 556-622 [Jstor]
Jacobs, Fredrika H., 鈥楾he Construction of a Life: Madonna Properzia de鈥� Rossi 鈥�Schultrice鈥� Bolognese鈥�, Word and Image, 9 (1993), pp. 122-132 [Arts Periodicals]
Jacobs, Fredrika H., 鈥榃oman鈥檚 Capacity to Create: The Unusual Case of Sofonisba Anguissola鈥�, Renaissance Quarterly, 47 (1994), pp. 74-101 [Jstor]
Jacobs, Fredrika H., Defining the Renaissance Virtuosa: Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism, Cambridge 1997 [N 72.F3]
King, C., 鈥歀ooking a Sight: Sixteenth-Century Portraits of Women Artists鈥�, Zeitschrift f眉谤 Kunstgeschichte, 58 (1995), pp. 381-406 [Arts Periodicals]
Lincoln, Evelyn, 鈥橫aking a Good Impression: Diana Mantuana鈥檚 Printmaking Career鈥�, Renaissance Quarterly, 5 (1997), pp. 1101-1147 [Jstor]
Murphy, Caroline P., 鈥橪avinia Fontana and Female Life Cycle Experience in Late Sixteenth-Century Bologna鈥�, in Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, eds. G.A. Johnson and S.F. Matthews Grieco, Cambridge 1997, pp. 111-138 [N 6915.P4]
Perry, Gill (ed.), Gender and Art, New Haven-London 1999 [N 7630.G3]
Schutte, Anne Jacobson, 鈥業rene di Spilimbergo: The Image of a Creative Woman in Late Renaissance Italy鈥�, Renaissance Quarterly, 44 (1991), pp. 42-61 [Jstor]
Trinchieri Camiz, Franca, 鈥溾�橵irgo non sterilis ...鈥�: Nuns as Arstists in Seventeenth-Century Rome鈥�, in Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, ed. by Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Matthews Grieco, Cambridge 1997, pp. 139-164 [N 6915.P4]
Ward Bissell, R., Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art: Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonn猫, University Park 1997 [ND 623.G34]