Women who ruled : queens, goddesses, Amazons in Renaissance and Baroque art

Women who ruled : queens, goddesses, Amazons in Renaissance and Baroque art /

Female power is explored in this online exhibition of one hundred Old Master paintings, prints, book illustrations, drawings, sculpture and decorative arts objects from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Visual representations and real stories of women who ruled, including Athena, Aphrodite, Cathe...

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Other Authors: Dixon, Annette
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Merrell ; in association with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2002.
Subjects:
Arts, Renaissance > Europe.
Arts, Baroque > Europe.
Women in art.
Queens in art.
Art, Renaissance.
Art, Baroque > Europe.
Kings and rulers in art.
Art de la Renaissance.
Art baroque > Europe.
Femmes dans l'art.
Rois et souverains dans l'art.
Arts de la Renaissance.
Arts baroques > Europe.
Reines dans l'art.
Arts, Baroque.
Arts, Renaissance.
Vrouwen.
Koninginnen (vorstinnen)
Godinnen.
Amazones.
Beeldende kunsten.
Women heads of state > Biography > Dictionaries.
Heads of state > Biography > Dictionaries.
Queens > Biography > Dictionaries.
Art, Renaissance > Exhibitions.
Art, Baroque > Exhibitions.
Women in art > Exhibitions.
Kings and rulers in art > Exhibitions.
Gods in art > Exhibitions.
Baroque art > Europe.
Europe.
Exhibition catalogues.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Annette Dixon
  • Women's authority in the state and household in early modern Europe / Merry Wiesner-Hanks
  • Women as the topic / Mieke Bal
  • Is the king genderless? : the staging of the female regent as Minerva Pacifera / Bettina Baumgärtel
  • Women who ruled : queens, goddesses, Amazons 1500-1650 : a thematic overview / Annette Dixon.

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