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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Female portraiture"”.
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Picturing the Writing Woman: The Representation of Three Early Vernacular Female Poets in Fifteenth-Century Italy
… in relation to contemporaneous developments in female portraiture. This thesis focuses on the three fifteenth-century Italian writing women who are also firmly identified subjects in independent painted portraits: Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427-1482), painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio in c.1475; …
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Female society portraits: representing the elite woman in eighteenth-century New Spain
… extended the production and circulation of portraiture beyond to a new and growing class of elites. This project examines the production and circulation of secular female portraiture in eighteenth-century New Spain. Focusing on the role of portraiture as an agent in the formation of …
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: ENVISIONING AESTHETIC BEAUTY AND THE PAST THROUGH IMAGES OF WOMEN
… experience in their conflation of formal and female beauty. Using the historically idealized conventions of female portraiture, Rossetti created images of women that privileged Aesthetic beauty over narrative or moral meaning. His use of vibrant, rich color, a quality he and his peers …
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Bernardino Licinio: Portraiture, Kinship and Community in Renaissance Venice
… contribution to shaping a tradition of female portraiture. The chapter thus challenges the accepted conceit of women’s “artistic invisibility” in Venetian art, while simultaneously highlighting Licinio’s role in forming the genre of family portraiture. Chapter four presents a case study …
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Beyond the Dutiful Daughter: An Examination of the Role and Representation of Daughters in the Renaissance
… be false on every level, this categorization of females as lesser creatures than males is a stigma borne by women throughout history. This thesis has a narrow focus on the role and representation of aristocratic Early Modern daughters before they become wives and mothers, and on Sofonisba …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
The dissertation is the first study of heroic portraiture in Italy in the sixteenth century. With the term heroic, which is presented and justified in the introduction to the thesis, I qualify independent portraits in all media in which the sitter is represented in the guise of a mythological, …