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HA 394.103 Women Artists in Early Modern Europe This course looks at the conditions of production that enabled the emergence of European women as independent artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Our primary focus will be on Italy, and artists like Lavinia Fontana, Sofonisba Anguissola and Artemisia Gentileschi. But comparative material will be drawn from the Netherlands, England, Spain and elsewhere. We will be looking at spaces and modes of production, primarily courts, convents, and cities, and the social networks of patronage, marketing, and gift exchange within which women made and viewed art. Our investigations will concentrate on areas in which women artists made notable achievements, such as still life, portraiture, and self-portraiture. The religious sphere was also a major venue for women's cultural production in such areas as theatre, music, visual imagery, and patronage. Further topics to be considered include the engagement of women in other areas of visual culture, e.g. needlework, calligraphy, anatomical wax models.(Simons) |