Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700 9463721401, 9789463721400

Table of contents :
Title
Series page
Half Title
Copy Right page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Collaborative Knowledge-Making
Painters, Princesses, and Printmakers
Bibliography
About the Author
2. Catharina Van Hemessen’s Self-Portrait
A Woman Painter with an International Career
Catharina Van Hemessen’s Self-Portrait in Context
A Bold Move
Talkative Tools
Palettes & Brushes
Palettes in Perspective
Theory in Flesh
Bibliography
About the Author
3. By Candlelight
Written Accounts of Women Using Night for Creative Activities
Judith Leyster as an Early Innovator in Artificial Light
Depicting Female Creativity in Leyster’s Paintings of Women Sewing at Night
Gesina ter Borch’s Interest in Nocturnal Aesthetics and Nighttime Social Narratives
Gesina ter Borch’s Oeuvre and Artistic Training
Poetic Narratives of Nocturnal Romance and Aesthetic Stylization of ­Nocturnal Imagery
Women and Nighttime Socializing in Context
Gesina ter Borch’s Poetry Album, Songbooks, and Female Sexuality
Ter Borch’s Techniques and Experimentation with Nocturnal Visual Effects
Conclusion: Night, Women, and Creative Work
Bibliography
About the Author
4. In Living Memory
The House of Orange in the Dutch Republic
An Integrated Plan for House and Garden
The Hollandse Tuin, or Outside Looking In
The Architectural Language of Triumph, or The Inside Looking Out
Conclusions: Built Identity and Living Memory
Bibliography
About the Author
5. Louise Hollandine and the Art of Arachnean Critique
Historical Contexts
Ovid’s Arachne and Lovelace’s Louise Hollandine
Poetic Portraiture and Questions of Agency
Louise Hollandine’s Ovidianism
The Poem
Bibliography
About the Author
6. Reclaiming Reproductive Printmaking
Magdalena’s Development as an Engraver
Apollo and Coronis/The Death of Procris
Rewriting Art History
Bibliography
About the Author
7. Towards an Understanding of Mayken ­Verhulst and Volcxken Diericx1
Introduction: Erasures, Confessions, Sublimations
Verhulst and Diericx in History and the Historical Imagination
Questions, Productions, and Open Conclusions
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

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