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Author Oberer, Angela, author.

Title The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) : the Queen of Pastel / Angela Oberer
Published [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
Contents Rosalba Carriera -- an independent single artist in eighteenth-century Venice -- Carriera's discovery of pastel painting -- Carriera's international network -- Carriera's stay in Paris -- Carriera's oeuvre in pastel -- The single woman, the spinster -- Carriera's last journeys -- the end of an enviable career -- Carriera's ways of self-fashioning
Summary The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757). The Queen of Pastel is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera. It is also the first scholarly investigation into the external and internal factors that helped to create this female painter's unique career in eighteenth-century Europe. It documents the difficulties, complications, and consequences that arose then-and can also arise today-when a woman decides to become an independent artist. This book contributes a new, in-depth analysis of the interplay among society's expectations, generally accepted codices for gendered behavior, and one single female painter's astute strategies for achieving success, as well as autonomy in her professional life as a famed artist. Some of the questions that the author raises are: How did Carriera manage to build up her career? How did she run her business and organize her own workshop? What kind of artist was Carriera? Finally, what do her self-portraits reveal in terms of self-enactment, possibly autobiographical turning points?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on August 05, 2020)
Subject Carriera, Rosalba, 1675-1757.
SUBJECT Carriera, Rosalba, 1675-1757
Carriera, Rosalba, 1675-1757 fast
Subject Painters -- Italy -- Biography
Women painters -- Italy -- Biography
Pastel drawing, Italian -- 18th century
History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600.
Painting and paintings.
Individual artists, art monographs.
Gender studies: women.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Monographs.
Painters
Pastel drawing, Italian
Women painters
Italy
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9048541409
9789048541409