Painting Women : Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture

Painting Women : Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture / Patricia Phillippy.

This original analysis of the representation and self-representation of women in literature and visual arts revolves around multiple early modern senses of "painting": the creation of visual art in the form of paint on canvas and the use of cosmetics to paint women's bodies. Situating...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillippy, Patricia Berrahou, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Arts, European > 17th century.
Arts, European > 16th century.
Cosmetics > Social aspects > Europe.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > Europe.
Gender identity in art.
Women in art.
Arts, European
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Gender identity in art
Women in art
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Painting Women: Spectacle and Subjectivity
  • Chapter Two. Public Women: Female Friendship on Trial
  • Chapter Three. The Mirror of Socrates
  • Chapter Four. Colors and Essence
  • Chapter Five. Conscience, Custom, and the Reformation of Painting
  • Conclusion

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