Women patrons and collectors
By: edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy and Adriana Turpin
Contributors: University of London. Institute of Historical Research
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781443834643
Subjects: Women art collectors; Congresses; Women art patrons
Description: As the present volume shows, women, particularly aristocratic women,not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collections and used them to their own advantage, in order to make statements about their lineage, power, cultural heritage or religious preferences. That is not to say that there was not an increasing number of middle-class women who became draughtswomen, painters and natural scientists and who found it equally beneficial for their chosen profession to collect. In every case, the female collector chose to collect and what to collect; she chose how and where to present the collection and she also decided when to dispose of objects, thereby occasionally taking on a curatorial role. Women have been seen as gatherers of furnishings, jewellery, dress and objects of domestic life.
Notes: "Most of these essays are based on papers given at the 'Women Collectors' conference held in London [Institute of Historical Research, University of London] in July 2008."--P. [xiii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-181) and index.