Italian Women Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
Why are women artists of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque so relatively unknown today when, during their lifetimes, their artistic merits were celebrated by their foremost contemporaries? Italian Women Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque aims to provide the first survey of women professionally active as painters, engravers and sculptors in 16th and 17th century Italy, and to document the sociocultural context that contributed to shape their lives and oeuvres. This catalogue, published...
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Why are women artists of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque so relatively unknown today when, during their lifetimes, their artistic merits were celebrated by their foremost contemporaries? Italian Women Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque aims to provide the first survey of women professionally active as painters, engravers and sculptors in 16th and 17th century Italy, and to document the sociocultural context that contributed to shape their lives and oeuvres. This catalogue, published in association with the travelling exhibition which opens at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D. C., examines the artistic practices and achievements of these remarkable women who managed to gain public, if not international, acclaim. Featuring 60 outstanding works by a dozen of the foremost Italian female artists, this volume offers an unparalleled opportunity to understand their social, personal, and stylistic developments. This scholarly publication will undoubtedly make a significant contribution to the re-emergence of these women as artists of stature and thus constitute a new departure for historical investigations into the way gender has affected how we perceive works of art and into issues of attributions and art market economics.
On the Origins of Women Painters Claudio Strinati 15Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque Jordana Pomeroy 19The Economics of the Woman Artist Caroline P. Murphy 23Wife, Widow, Nun, and Court Lady: Women Patrons of the Renaissance and Baroque Sheila Ffolliott 31Toward a History of Women Artists in Bologna between the Renaissance and the Baroque: Additions and Clarifications Vera Fortunati 41Sofonisba, Lavinia, Artemisia, and Elisabetta: Thirty Years after Women Artists, 1550-1950 Ann Sutherland Harris 49Painting Personal Identity: The Costuming of Nobildonne, Heroines, and Kings Carole Collier Frick 63The "Woman Artist" in Literature: Fiction or Non-Fiction? Alexandra Lapierre 75CatalogueCaterina Vigri 85Properzia de' Rossi 90Eufrasia Burlamacchi 96Plautilla Nelli 103Sofonisba Anguissola 106Lucia Anguissola 123Diana Scultori (aka Ghisi) 126Lavinia Fontana 135Barbara Longhi 167Fede Galizia 173Lucrina Fetti 183ChiaraVarotari 189Elisabetta Catanea Parasole 195Artemisia Gentileschi 198Orsola Maddalena Caccia 214Giovanna Garzoni 220Elisabetta Sirani 241Exhibition Checklist 257Bibliography 261
