Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century : : Gender, Identity, and the Tradition of Power /

Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century : : Gender, Identity, and the Tradition of Power / / Elisabetta Toreno.

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 a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Toreno, Elisabetta,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 39
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Table of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Cultural Background of Female Portraiture
  • 2. Women in Marriage Portraiture
  • 3. Women in Profile Portraiture
  • 4. Netherlandish Female Portraiture in Context
  • 5. Netherlandish or Not Netherlandish? Is That the Question?
  • 6. Fifteenth-Century Venice: Performing Imaging
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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