Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750
Title
Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750
Subtitle
Uncovering the Female Presence
Price
€ 141,00 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789048559718
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
308
Language
English
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Dimensions
17 x 24 cm
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Introduction - Tracy E. Cooper, Temple University
1. La Serenissima in Context: Women Artists in Venice and Beyond - Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University
2. The Taiapiera in Fourteenth-Century Venice: What's in a Name? - Louise Bourdua, University of Warwick
3. In Search of Marietta Tintoretta - Robert Echols, Independent Scholar, and Frederick Ilchman, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
4. The “Vite” of Women Artists in Venice (Sixteenth to Eighteeth Century) - Antonis Digalakis, University of Crete
5. Artists and Artisans in the Account Books of Marino Grimani, Patrician and Doge of Venice (Late Sixteenth–Early Seventeenth Centuries) - Maria Adank, Università degli Studi di Verona
6. Chiara Varotari (1584/1585–after 1663) - Diana Gisolfi, Pratt Institute
7. Artemisia Gentileschi in Venice: Facts and Suppositions - Davide Gasparotto, J Paul Getty Museum
8. Giovanna Garzoni and Venetian Witchcraft: Still Lifes as Natural Enchantments - Sheila Barker, Medici Archive Project and University of Pennsylvania
9. Caterina Tarabotti Unveiled - Georgios E. Markou, University of Cambridge
10. Shining a Light on Giulia Lama's Painting Practice in the San Marziale Four Evangelists - Cleo Nisse, Columbia University
11. Rosalba Carriera Unframed - Xavier F. Salomon, The Frick Collection
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Tracey Cooper (ed.)

Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750

Uncovering the Female Presence

This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The collection represents the first fruits of an ongoing research program launched by Save Venice, Inc., Women Artists of Venice, directed by Professor Tracy Cooper of Temple University, in conjunction with a conservation program, led by Melissa Conn, Director of Save Venice, Inc. Inspired by a growing body of research that has resurrected female artists and artisans in Florence and Bologna during the last decade, the Save Venice project seeks to recover the history of women artists and artisans born or active in the Venetian republic in the early modern period. Topics include their contemporary reception — or historical silence — and current scholarship positioning them as individuals and as an underrepresented category in the history of art and cultural heritage.
Editor

Tracey Cooper

Tracy E. Cooper is Professor of Art History at Temple University and on the Board of Directors of Save Venice, Inc., where she is director of the Women Artists in Venice research program. She is best known for Palladio’s Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic (Yale, 2006), winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from the Renaissance Society of America.