Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700 (Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700, 14)

"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."--Back cover. Title Series page Half Title Copy Right page Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Collaborative Knowledge-Making Painters, Princesses, and Printmakers Bibliography About the Author 2. Catharina Van Hemessen’s Self-Portrait A Woman Painter with an International Career Catharina Van Hemessen’s Self-Portrait in Context A Bold Move Talkative Tools Palettes & Brushes Palettes in Perspective Theory in Flesh Bibliography About the Author 3. By Candlelight Written Accounts of Women Using Night for Creative Activities Judith Leyster as an Early Innovator in Artificial Light Depicting Female Creativity in Leyster’s Paintings of Women Sewing at Night Gesina ter Borch’s Interest in Nocturnal Aesthetics and Nighttime Social Narratives Gesina ter Borch’s Oeuvre and Artistic Training Poetic Narratives of Nocturnal Romance and Aesthetic Stylization of ­Nocturnal Imagery Women and Nighttime Socializing in Context Gesina ter Borch’s Poetry Album, Songbooks, and Female Sexuality Ter Borch’s Techniques and Experimentation with Nocturnal Visual Effects Conclusion: Night, Women, and Creative Work Bibliography About the Author 4. In Living Memory The House of Orange in the Dutch Republic An Integrated Plan for House and Garden The Hollandse Tuin, or Outside Looking In The Architectural Language of Triumph, or The Inside Looking Out Conclusions: Built Identity and Living Memory Bibliography About the Author 5. Louise Hollandine and the Art of Arachnean Critique Historical Contexts Ovid’s Arachne and Lovelace’s Louise Hollandine Poetic Portraiture and Questions of Agency Louise Hollandine’s Ovidianism The Poem Bibliography About the Author 6. Reclaiming Reproductive Printmaking Magdalena’s Development as an Engraver Apollo and Coronis/The Death of Procris Rewriting Art History Bibliography About the Author 7. Towards an Understanding of Mayken ­Verhulst and Volcxken Diericx1 Introduction: Erasures, Confessions, Sublimations Verhulst and Diericx in History and the Historical Imagination Questions, Productions, and Open Conclusions Bibliography About the Author Index 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. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie