Portraiture, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth-Century Art

ISBN-13: 9781032206837 / Twarda / 2024 / 272 str.

Opis

This exciting and wide-ranging volume examines the construction and dissemination of the image of female power during the Renaissance.  

Spis treści

PART 1:  CREATING THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN POWER

1. Bronzino’s Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with Her Son Giovanni: The Invention of a Secular Icon for the Early Modern State.

Bruce Edelstein

2. Portrayals of Catherine de’Medici at the Granducal Medici Court.

Sheila ffolliott

3. Medals, cameos and miniatures: small format female portraits at the court of Philip II. 

Almudena Pérez de Tudela Gabarrón

4. The Failure to Construct a Visual Image of Gendered Power:  Anthonis Mor’s Portrait of Mary I, Queen of England, in the Prado.

Joanna Woods-Marsden

 

PART 2: USES, FUNCTIONS AND WAYS OF DISPLAYING

5. Portrait Galleries for the House of Habsburg in the Low Countries. Margaret of Austria in Mechelen and Mary of Hungary in Brussels.

Dagmar Eichberger

6. Captive in a portrait gallery: Titian’s portraits of John Frederick I of Saxony (c.1548 and c.1551) and the collection of Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary.

 M. José Rodríguez Salgado

7. ‘So they may beseech God on his behalf.’ Devotion, courtly pomp and dynastic presence in the portrait collections of Juana of Austria, Princess of Portugal, and Maria of Austria in the Monastery of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid.

Fernando Checa Cremades

8. The portrait gallery of Mencía de Mendoza, Marquise of Zenete.

Miguel Falomir Faus and Noelia García Pérez

9. Maria de Mendoza, portraits and the negotiation of memory: the display of her painting collection in the Cobos-Mendoza palace in Valladolid.

Sergio Ramiro Ramírez

O autorze

Noelia García Pérez is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Murcia, Spain.