The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757)

The Queen of Pastel
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6298-899-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 953 g

Reihe: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757): The Queen of Pastel is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera. It is also the first scholarly investigation of the external and internal factors that helped to create this female painter's unique career in eighteenth-century Europe. It documents the difficulties, complications, and consequences that arose then -- and can also arise today -- when a woman decides to become an independent artist. This book contributes a new, in-depth analysis of the interplay between society's expectations, generally accepted codices for gendered behaviour, and one single female painter's astute strategies for achieving success, as well as autonomy in her professional life as a famed artist. Some of the questions that the author raises are: How did Carriera manage to build up her career? How did she run her business and organize her own workshop? What kind of artist was Carriera? Finally, what do her self-portraits reveal in terms of self-enactment and possibly autobiographical turning points?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oberer, Angela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction

1 Rosalba Carriera - An Independent Single Artist in Eighteenth-Century Venice

Carriera's Early Years

Influential Friends

The Beginning of a Career: Carriera, an Exceptional Venetian Miniature Painter

Carriera's Membership in the Accademia di San Luca in Rome

A New Reading of Carriera's World en miniature

Carriera's Portrait of Philip Wharton (1698-1731)

Carriera's Daring Eroticism

The Young Gardener in Munich

Miniature Mythologies

Carriera and the Sister Arts

Carriera's Lady Putting Flowers in her Hair

Carriera's Clients of Erotic Art

2 Carriera's Discovery of Pastel Painting

A Short History of Pastel Painting

Successful Ambassador of a Neglected Technique. Carriera in the Art World of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Venice

3 Carriera's International Network

Attacked by the British

Carriera and the French

German Travellers on the Grand Tour

The Italianate Climate in Düsseldorf

The House of Wittelsbach

The Importance of 'Owning a Carriera'

4 Carriera's Stay in Paris

Carriera's Admittance into the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture

5 Carriera's Oeuvre in Pastel

Carriera's Portraits within the Venetian Tradition

From Unifying Formula to Character Studies

The Importance of 'Being a Carriera'

Carriera's 'Galleries of Beauty'

Character Studies and Erotica

Carriera's Favourite Pupil, Felicita Sartori

Carriera's Young Lady with a Parrot

Portrait or Allegory?

Mythological Subjects

The Reception of Carriera's Erotic Pastels

Carriera's Religious Works for Dresden

6 The Single Woman, the Spinster

7 Carriera's Last Journeys - The End of an Enviable Career

Carriera in Modena

Carriera in Vienna

The End of an Enviable Career

8 Carriera's Ways of Self-Fashioning

Carriera's House on the Grand Canal, a Fashionable Space of Self-Representation

Self-Fashioning through Self-Portraits

Carriera's Earliest Self-Portrait

Carriera's Self-Portrait in the Uffizi

Carriera's Self-Portrait as Winter in Dresden, 1730-31

Carriera's Self-Portrait in Old Age in Windsor Castle, c.1744

Carriera's Self-Portrait in the Accademia in Venice, 1746

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Oberer, Angela
Angela Oberer teaches art history at Georgetown University, Florence, at AIFS, at CEA, at CET which is associated with Vanderbilt University, and at other programs that work with colleges and universities from all over the USA.