Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency, Identity

Book Overview

As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. Its nine original essays on Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, France, and England deepen the usefulness of these analytical tools for portraiture. Among the book's broad contributions:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138259446
• ISBN13: 9781138259447
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"