Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Studies in Early Modernity in The Netherlands
Número de páginas: 302 págs. 17.0 x 24.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 30-11-2023
EAN: 9789463725491
ISBN: 978-94-6372-549-1
Precio (sin IVA): 156,45 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 162,71 €
This book seeks to write Block and her contributions into the art and cultural history of the seventeenth-century Netherlands, highlighting the need for and advantages of a multifaceted approach to research on early modern women. Examining Block’s achievements, relationships, and objects reveals a woman who was independent, knowledgeable, self-aware, and not above self-promotion. Though her gender brought few opportunities and many barriers, Agnes Block succeeded in fashioning herself as Flora Batava, a liefhebber at the intersection of art and science.