Defining the Renaissance ''Virtuosa'' - Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism

Klappentext Jacobs examines art criticism on women artists who were active in Renaissance Italy. Zusammenfassung Defining the Renaissance 'Virtuosa' considers the language of art in relationship to issues of gender difference through an examination of art criticism written between 1550 and 1800 on approximately 40 women artists who were active in Renaissance Italy. Jacobs shows how the biases of these early critics have inflected reception of these virtuose. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Problems of praise and Pythagorean contrariety; 3. (Pro)creativity; 4. Melancholia: a case study; 5. La donnesca mano; 6. Misplaced modifiers; 7. 'femmina masculo e masculo femmina'; Appendix I. A roster of sixteenth-century Italian women artists; Appendix II. Rime, Madrigali, and other early writings on artists and art; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Fredrika H. Jacobs, Fredrika H. (Virginia Commonwealth Univers Jacobs
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.1997
• EAN: 9780521572705
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57270-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories