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Author Ceney, Liana de Girolami

Title Self-portraits by women painters / Liana De Girolami Cheney, Alicia Craig Faxon, Kathleen Lucey Russo
Published Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [2000]
©2000

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Description xxvi, 267 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents Introduction: What is a portrait? -- I. Self-portraits in antiquity -- II. The medieval reflection: illumination and miniature self-portraits -- III. The Renaissance: interest in self-imaging -- IV. Mannerism: the self-portrait of the nobil donna -- V. The Baroque: power, vision and the self -- VI. The eighteenth century: transition, travel and international recognition -- VII. The nineteenth century: education, exhibitions and new opportunities -- VIII. The symbolic self: women painters' quest for identity in the twentieth century -- IX. Contemporary art: journey to the inner self -- X. Conclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-256) and index
Subject Painters.
Painters -- History.
Self-portraits -- History.
Women painters.
Women painters -- History.
Women painters -- Psychology.
Self-perception in women.
Genre/Form Self-portraits.
Author Faxon, Alicia Craig.
Cheney, Liana.
Russo, Kathleen Lucey.
LC no. 98053155
ISBN 1859284248 :