The life and work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) : the queen of pastel / Angela Oberer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oberer, Angela, author.

Series:

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carriera, Rosalba, 1675-1757.

Carriera, Rosalba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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?

Contents:

Rosalba Carriera

an independent single artist in eighteenth-century Venice

Carriera's discovery of pastel painting

Carriera's international network

Carriera's stay in Paris

Carriera's oeuvre in pastel

The single woman, the spinster

Carriera's last journeys

the end of an enviable career

Carriera's ways of self-fashioning.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Dec 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70676-2

90-485-6681-9

90-485-4140-9

9781003706762

OCLC:

1181774114