NETHERLANDISH AND ITALIAN FEMALE PORTRAITURE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY [electronic resource] : gender, identity, and... the tradition of power.

Erişim Adresi
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ISBN
9781040785263 (electronic bk.)
1040785263 (electronic bk.)
9781040791240 ePub ebook
1040791247
9781003700524 (electronic bk.)
1003700527 (electronic bk.)
1041183461
9781041183464
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource
Dizi
Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
Özet, vb.
This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial activities that was especially advanced in the urbanised territories of Italy and Flanders. For this reason, the portraits in this book are by Netherlandish and Italian painters. They are simultaneously illustrative of the emancipation of the genre from its medieval idiom, and of the responses to the matrix of patriarchy, under which society was organised. Patriarchy is an androcentric structure that places women in a paradoxical situation of legal and social disenfranchisement on the account of purported psychophysical inadequacy, whilst making them the catalysts, through arranged marriages, for the success of the spheres of power, which are controlled by men. Thus, these portraits are also a window into women's lives in this structure. This book is the first systematic study of their sign-system and of the feminine experience of seeing and being seen, at the intersection of disciplines that include art history, anthropology, legal history, philosophy. The surprising results suggest new interpretations of form and function in female portraiture, women's active role in the imaging process and the early instances of a pro-women ideology.
Konu
Painting, Dutch __ 15th century __ Themes, motives.
Painting, Italian __ 15th century __ Themes, motives.
Women __ Italy __ Social conditions __ 15th century.
Women __ Netherlands __ Social conditions __ 15th century.
Women __ Italy __ Portraits.
Women __ Netherlands __ Portraits.
Women in art __ History __ To 1500.
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