Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-35499-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 743 g

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

This book analyzes the evolving interaction between court and media from an understudied perspective. Eight case studies focus on different European Empress consorts and Queen regnants from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, using a comparative, cross-media, and cross-period approach. The volume addresses a multitude of questions, ranging from how dynastic women achieved public prominence through their portraits; how their faces and bodies were moulded and rearticulated to fit varying expectations in the courtly public sphere; and the degree to which they, as female actors, engaged with or had agency within the processes of production and reception. In particular, two types of female rulership and their relationship to diverse media are contrasted, and lesser-known and under-researched dynastic women are spotlighted.

Contributors: Christine Engelke, Anna Fabiankowitsch, Inga Lena Ångström Grandien, Titia Hensel, Andrea Mayr, Alison McQueen, Marion Romberg, and Alison Rowley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Romberg, Marion

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Antiquitäten, Sammelobjekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Empresses and Queens in Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century

Marion Romberg

Part 1: Early Modern Times

1 Christina of Sweden’s Royal Representation in Architecture, Interiors and Portraits (1644–1654)

Inga Lena Ångström Grandien

2 An Early Modern Empress Consort’s Role in the Courtly Public Sphere: Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg and Her Media Appearance in Single-Sheet Prints and Medals between 1676 and 1687

Marion Romberg

3 Striking Images: The Public Image of Maria Theresa of Austria in Coins and Medals (1740–1780)

Anna Fabiankowitsch

Part 2: 19th Century

4 Picturing Empress Maria Anna of Savoy-Sardinia on Medals in the First Half of the 19th Century

Andrea Mayr

5 ‘Secret Pictures’? Staging Privacy in Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s Portraits of Female Monarchs

Titia Hensel

6 Shaped to Suit a Nation: Mid-19th-Century Representations of the Last Empress of the French

Alison McQueen

7 Feminine Majesty on an International Stage: French Postcards and Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

Alison Rowley

Part 3: 20th Century

8 Andy Warhol’s Reigning Queens and the Deconstruction of the Royal Portrait in Modern Times

Christine Engelke

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marion Romberg is a Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has published monographs, articles and databases on early modern visual culture, including essays in Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe, 1400–1800 (Brill, 2019) and Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents (Brill, 2020).