Defining the Renaissance 'Virtuosa' : Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521572703
ISBN-13
9780521572705
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 13th, 1997
Print length
254 Pages
Weight
558 grams
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23.40 x 16.10 x 2.30 cms
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Renaissance art
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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.
Defining the Renaissance "Virtuosa" considers the language of art in relationship to the issues of gender difference through an examination of art criticism written between 1550 and 1800 on approximately forty women artists who were active in Renaissance Italy. Fredrika Jacobs demonstrates how these theoretical writings defined women artists, by linking artistic creation and biological procreation. Jacobs'' study shows how deeply the biases of these early critics have inflected both subsequent reception of these Renaissance virtuose, as well as modern scholarship.
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