Strumwasser - Politically incorrect: women artists and female imagery in early modern Europe

Politically Incorrect: Women Artists and Female Imagery in Early Modern Europe

Gina Strumwasser

California State University, Fresno

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List of Figures

Part I

The Limbourg Brothers, February Page , from the Trs Riches Heures du Duc de Berry , Chantilly, Muse Cond.

. The Limbourg Brothers, June Page , from the Tr s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry , Chantilly, Muse Cond.

. The Limbourg Brothers, September Page , from the Trs Riches Heures du Duc de Berry , Chantilly, Muse Cond.

. Pietro Lorenzetti, Birth of the Virgin, Siena, Museo dellOpera del Duomo.

Fig. 1-5. Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of St. John the Baptist , Florence, Cappella Maggiore, Santa Maria Novella.

Fig. 1-5a. Detail. Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of St. John the Baptist , Florence, Cappella Maggiore, Santa Maria Novella.

Fig. 1-6. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of the Good Government in the City, Siena, Sala della Pace (also titled Sala dei Nove), Palazzo Pubblico.

. Anon. French, Page with Thamyris, from Giovanni Boccaccio , Concerning Famous Women (De Claris Mulieribus), Paris, Bibliothque Nationale.

. Detail. Anon. French, Page with Thamyris, from Giovanni Boccaccio , Concerning Famous Women (De Claris Mulieribus), Paris, Bibliothque Nationale.

. Anon. French, Page with Marcia, detail from Giovanni Boccaccio, Concerning Famous Women (De Claris Mulieribus) , Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale.

. Anon. French, Christine de Pisan in Her Study and the Building of the City of Ladies, Paris, Bibliothque Nationale.

. Caterina van Hemessen , Self-Portrait at the Easel, Basel, ffentliche Kunstsammlung.

. Caterina van Hemessen, Young Woman Playing the Virginals , Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum.

. Portrait of Properzia de Rossi , Illustration from Le Vite by Giorgio Vasari, edition of 1568.

. Properzia de Rossi, Crest of the Grassi Family , Bologna, Museo Civico Medievale.

. Properzia de Rossi, Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar , Bologna, Museo di San Petronio.

. Detail. Properzia de Rossi, Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar , Bologna, Museo di San Petronio.

. Lavinia Fontana, Self-Portrait in a Studiolo ( or Study) , Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Corridoro Vasariano.

. Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of a Noblewomen , Washington D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts.

. Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding Portrait , London, National Gallery.

. Lavinia Fontana, Self-Portrait at the Spinet Accompanied by a Handmaiden , Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca.

. Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait with a Book , Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.

. Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait at the Easel , Lancut, Muzeum Zamek.

.Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait , Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art.

Fig. 1-21. Maria de Grebber, Portrait of the Priest Augustinus de Wolff, Utrecht, Rijksmuseum Het Catharijneconvent. (Museum website: www.catharijneconvent.nl/)

. Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting , Windsor Castle, The Royal Collection.

. Felice Maria Casoni, Portrait medal of Lavinia Fontana , obverse, 1611, London, British Museum.

. Marguerite Grard, The First Step , Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums.

. Elisabeth Louise Vige-Lebrun, Self Portrait in a Straw Hat , London, National Gallery.

Part II

. Jean Pucelle , Betrayal and Annunciation from the Book of Hours of Jeanne dEvreux, New York, Metropolitan Museum, Cloisters Collection.

. Detail. Jean Pucelle , Annunciation from the Book of Hours of Jeanne dEvreux, New York, Metropolitan Museum, Cloisters Collection.

. Giovanni Lanfranco, Annunciation , St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum.

Fig. 2-3 Lavinia Fontana, Annunciation, Baltimore, Walters Museum of Art. (Museum Website: thewalters.org/)

. Robert Campin (Master of Flemalle and Workshop), The Merode Altarpiece, center panel of the Annunciation, New York, Metropolitan Museum, Cloisters Collection.

. Duccio, The Maesta Altarpiece , Siena, Museo dellOpera del Duomo.

. Elisabetta Sirani, Virgin and Child , London, Warburg.

. Mary Casssatt, Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child , Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

. Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna of the Rocks , Paris, Muse du Louvre.

. Raphael, La Belle Jardini re , Paris, Muse du Louvre.

F. Caravaggio, Madonna of the Pilgrims , Rome, Church of Saint Agostino.

. Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece , Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi.

. Giotto, Lamentation , Padua, Arena Chapel (also titled Scrovegni Chapel).

. Caravaggio, Entombment of Christ , Rome, Pinacoteca Vaticana.

. Donatello, St. Mary Magdalen , Florence, Duomo Museum.

. Anon. Spanish, 11001300, Noli me tangere , Madrid, Museo Aqueologico Nacional.

. Lavinia Fontana, Noli me tangere , Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi.

. Giovanni Savoldo, St. Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre , Los Angeles, Getty Center and Museum.

. Antonello da Messina, Virgin Annunciate , Palermo, Galleria Nazionale della Sicilia.

Fig. 2-19. Leonardo da Vinci, Angel of the Annunciation (after Leonardo), Basel, Offenliche Kunstsammlung. (Museum website: www.wga.hu/database/museums/kunstmus.html )

. Titian, St. Mary Magdalen , Florence, Palazzo Pitti.

. Gianlorenzo Bernini, St. Mary Magdalen , Siena, Cathedral, Chigi Chapel.

. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy , Rome, Church of Santa Maria della Victoria.

. Detail. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Bozetto , St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy , St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum.

. Detail. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy , Rome, Church of Santa Maria della Victoria.

. Detail. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy , Rome, Church of Santa Maria della Victoria.

. Detail. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy , Rome, Church of Santa Maria della Victoria.101

. Unknown Artist 15th c., Speculum humanae salvationis, detail Judith Slaying Holofernes , Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France.

. German 15th c., Biblia Pauperum, Annunciation with the Fall of Eve and Gideons Fleece , Washington DC, National Gallery of Art.

. Lorenzi Ghiberti, Florence, Gates of Paradise (East Doors of the Baptistery).

. Detail. Lorenzi Ghiberti, The Story of Jacob and Esau , Florence, Gates of Paradise (East Doors of the Baptistery).