This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women were prominent as creators in their own time and deserve to be recognized as such today.
- 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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