Portraiture, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth-Century Art

Creating and Promoting the Public Image of Early Modern Women
Herausgeber: García Pérez, Noelia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This exciting and wide-ranging volume examines the construction and dissemination of the image of female power during the Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781032206837
• ISBN-10: 1032206837
• Artikelnr.: 69483108

Autorenporträt

Noelia García Pérez is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Murcia, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Creating the Image of Women in Power 1. Bronzino's Portrait of
Eleonora di Toledo with Her Son Giovanni: The Invention of a Secular Icon
for the Early Modern State 2. Portrayals of Catherine de' Medici at the
Granducal Medici Court 3. Medals, Cameos, and Miniatures: Small Format
Female Portraits at the Court of Philip II 4. The Failure to Construct a
Visual Image of Gendered Power: Anthonis Mor's Portrait of Mary I, Queen of
England, in the Prado Part 2 Uses, Functions, and Ways of Displaying 5.
Portrait Galleries for the House of Habsburg in the Low Countries: Margaret
of Austria in Mechelen and Mary of Hungary in Brussels 6. Captive in a
Portrait Gallery: Titian's Portraits of John Frederick I of Saxony (c. 1548
and c. 1551) and the Collection of Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary 7. "So
They May Beseech God on His Behalf": Devotion, Courtly Pomp, and Dynastic
Presence in the Portrait Collections of Juana of Austria, Princess of
Portugal, and Maria of Austria in the Monastery of Las Descalzas Reales in
Madrid 8. The Portrait Gallery of Mencía de Mendoza, Marquise of Zenete 9.
Maria de Mendoza, Portraits, and the Negotiation of Memory: The Display of
Her Painting Collection in the Cobos-Mendoza Palace in Valladolid