Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe

c. 1450-1700

Tanja L. Jones

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040794470
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: European Renaissance History

Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe, c. 1450.1700 presents the first collection of essays dedicated to women as producers of visual and material culture in the Early Modern European courts, offering fresh insights into the careers of, among others, Caterina van Hemessen, Sofonisba Anguissola, Luisa Roldán, and Diana Mantuana. Also considered are groups of female makers, such as ladies-in-waiting at the seventeenth-century Medici court. Chapters address works by women who occupied a range of social and economic positions within and around the courts and across media, including paintings, sculpture, prints, and textiles. Both individually and collectively, the texts deepen understanding of the individual artists and courts highlighted and, more broadly, consider the variety of experiences of female makers across traditional geographic and chronological distinctions. The book is also accompanied by the Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts digital humanities project (www.globalmakers.ua.edu), extending and expanding the work begun here.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe, c. 1450–1700
• 2. Female Court Artists: Women’s Career Strategies in the Courts of the Early Modern Period
• 3. Caterina van Hemessen in the Habsburg Court of Mary of Hungary
• 4. Sofonisba Anguissola, a Painter and a Ladyin-Waiting
• 5. Creative Reproductions: Diana Mantuana and Printmaking at Court
• 6. ‘Una persona dependente alla Serenissima Gran Duchessa’: Female Embroiderers and Lacemakers between the courts of Florence and France
• 7. Life at Court: Luisa Roldán in Madrid 1689–1706
• Bibliography
• Index