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This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women were prominent as creators in their own time and deserve to be recognized as such today. This collection: 1) It contributes research on individual early modern Netherlandish women artists and patrons and names women artists, patrons, and those who-including themselves-promoted and praised their work in their own time. It thereby provides a foundation for future art historians and scholars. 2) It features emerging scholars' research and provides a historiographical corrective with a contemporary perspective on the state of a feminist Netherlandish art history. 3) The topic is timely-feminist issues are experiencing a resurgence of interest in the academy and among a more general readership because of #metoo and the political realities of the US and Europe.
List of contents
1. Introduction: An Historiographical Perspective on Women Making Netherlandish Art History. Elizabeth Sutton. 2. Catharina Van Hemessen's Self-Portrait: The Woman Who Took Saint Luke's Palette. Céline Telon. 3. By Candlelight: Uncovering Early Modern Women's Creative Uses of Night. Nicole Cook. 4. In Living Memory: Architecture, Gardens, and Identity at Huis ten Bosch. Saskia Beranek. 5. The Arachnean Artist in Lovelace's Princesse Löysa Drawing. Lindsay Reid. 6. Reclaiming Reproductive Printmaking. Amy Frederick. 7. Towards an Understanding of Mayken Verhulst and Volkcxen Diericx. Art DiFuria.
About the author
Elizabeth Sutton is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Northern Iowa. She has published
Art, Animals, and Experience: Relationships to Canines and the Natural World (Routledge, 2017),
Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and
Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa (Ashgate, 2012). Her current research interests include feminist historiography and mapping place and migration with art history.
