Elisabetta Sirani 'Virtuosa'. Women s Cultural Production in Early Modern Bologna

prima edizione Elisabetta Sirani 'Virtuosa'. Women s Cultural Production in Early Modern Bologna by Adelina . Modesti Nuovo Brossura Quantità:1 EUR 200,00 Descrizione: Brossura. Condizione: nuovo. XLIV+449 p., 180 b/w ill. + 32 colour ill. Brepols, 2014. Paperback This publication presents the first monograph in English published on the successful Bolognese seventeenth-century artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665). This is the first monograph in English published on the successful Bolognese seventeenth-century artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665). Modesti presents Sirani as a 'subject of her own genre', underlining the painter s innovative qualities, not only in artistic terms, but also from a socio-political and historical perspective. The author s discussion of the material context of women s artistic production and of the Bolognese seventeenth-century cultural world evidences how Sirani epitomized a new model of 'femininity' and a new rising social genre: the single professional woman. Having been rightly admitted to an artistic, social, and cultural world historically dominated by men, Sirani was an unmarried woman who chose a productive and rewarding career over the traditional role of wife and mother. An 'ultramodern artist', deemed by her contemporaries to be extremely talented and inventive, Sirani affirmed her professional status within a mostly male world thanks to her extraordinary cultural learning and virtu oso artistic skills, as well as the clever management of her public image and success. Being a woman was not a hindrance to Sirani, but rather a positive element: by projecting her own image and identity onto the femme fortes of ancient history, and by inviting important guests to her studio so as to observe her painting, she organized her own 'public exhibition', thus becoming both the subject and the object of her own art. Modesti underscores Sirani s momentous role in the professionalization of Italian women s cultural production and artistic practice at the beginning of the modern era and highlights Sirani s role as an example for successive generations of professional women artists. Table of ContentsIllustrations Colour Plates Acknowledgements Introduction Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna: A Portrait of the Artist as a Fashionable Young Woman PART I CONTEXT: Elisabetta Sirani and Her World: Matronage, Gendered Knowledge, and Female Literacy in Early Modern Bologna Chapter 1 The Illustrious Women of Bologna: Elisabetta Sirani Exemplum Chapter 2 Public Life, Women s Patronage, and Female Education in Post-Tridentine Bologna Chapter 3 Elisabetta Sirani Maestra perfetta : Education, Cultural Formation, and Teaching PART II PROFESSIONAL LIFE: Theory and Practice Chapter 4 In her Father s Workshop: Elisabetta Sirani s Artistic Formation and Training Chapter 5 The Virile Woman: Female Power and Wisdom in Elisabetta Sirani s Representations of Heroic Women Chapter 6 The Phallic Paintbrush: Gender and Genius in the Art of Elisabetta Sirani Epilogue In Memoriam PART III CATALOGUE Bibliography Index. Codice articolo 012369 - Language : english text