Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Leis, Arlene; Wills, Kacie L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000175226
• Artikelnr.: 59888255

Autorenporträt

Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York. Kacie L. Wills received her PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside, and is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois College.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Artificialia and Naturalia 1. Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies
Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy 2. Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de
Medici Irina Schmiedel 3. Anne Vallayer-Coster
s Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral Kelsey Brosnan Part II Travel, Borders, and Networks 4. Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman
s Pioneering Work in Entomology Katharina Schmidt-Loske 5. Sarah Sophia Banks
s Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange Erica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills 6. Conversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of Enlightenment Lizzie Rogers 7. Portrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in Transit Maria Antonietta Spadero 8. The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in 18th Century Russia: Pioneering Action or Sheer Demonstration of Power? Charis Ch. Avlonitou Part III Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing 8. `I made memorandums
: Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Collection Madeleine Pelling 9. Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade Caryatid Nicole Cochrane 10. Anne Wagner
s Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine Friendship Ryna Ordynat 11. An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman Hanneke Grootenboer Part IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century 12. Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House Anna Frances O
Regan 13. Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady
s collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans Arlene Leis