Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Número de páginas: 368 págs. 24.0 x 17.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-11-2022
EAN: 9789463728614
ISBN: 978-94-6372-861-4
Precio (sin IVA): 164,48 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 171,06 €
This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial activities that was especially advanced in the urbanised territories of Italy and Flanders. For this reason, the portraits in this book are by Netherlandish and Italian painters. They are simultaneously illustrative of the emancipation of the genre from its medieval idiom, and of the responses to the matrix of patriarchy, under which society was organised.