Women and portraits in early modern Europe
Subtitle: gender, agency, identity
By: edited by Andrea Pearson.
Contributors: Pearson, Andrea G.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780754656661
Subjects: Women -- Europe -- Portraits -- History; Gender identity in art -- History; Art, European
Genres: Portraits
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-220) and index.