Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe

Andrea Pearson is a specialist in the visual culture of northern Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, she has published on gender and devotional art in Gesta, Renaissance Quarterly, Woman's Art Journal, and the Sixteenth Century Journal.

• Contents: Introduction: portraiture's selves, Andrea Pearson; Gender and the configuration of early Netherlandish devotional skill, Bret Rothstein; Productions of meaning in portraits of Margaret of York, Andrea Pearson; The posthumous image of Mary of Burgundy, Ann M. Roberts; Effaced: falling widows, Allison Levy; Daddy's little girl: patrilineal anxiety in 2 portraits of a Renaissance daughter, Katherine A. McIver; Engaging negation in Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Christina of Denmark Duchess of Milan, Christiane Hertel; All the queen's women: female double portraits at the Caroline court, Jennifer L. Hallam; Troubling identities and the agreeable game of art: from Madame de Pompadour's theatrical 'breeches' of decorum to Drouais' portrait of Madame Du Barry en homme, Melissa Lee Hyde; Sculpting her image: Sarah Siddons and the art of self-fashioning, Heather McPherson; Bibliography; Index.

'Making a significant contribution to the field of early modern European visual culture, this volume focusing on portraits of women asks - and, in some cases, even answers - how image-making functioned as an act of agency in Renaissance and Baroque Europe.' Julia Marciari Alexander, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University 'All in all, this an excellent collection of studies, which makes a major contribution to the subject of female portraiture in early modern Europe as well as raising questions that will hopefully lead to further fruitful research.’ Parergon