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Rosalba Carriera
Angela Oberer
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This is an accessibly written, illustrated biography of Venetian
painter Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), one of the most famous women
artists in 18th-century Europe. It presents an overview of her life
and work, considering Carriera's miniatures alongside her
better-known, larger-scale works. Focusing on interpretation of her
paintings in the historical context of her life as a single woman
in Venice, the book offers an easy guide through Carrieras life,
the people she met, her clients and her artistic approach. The
author's new iconographic analysis of some of Carriera's works
reveals that she was an erudite painter, drawing on antiquity as
well as the work of Renaissance virtuosos such as Leonardo da Vinci
and Paolo Veronese.
The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757): The Queen of
Pastel is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of
Rosalba Carriera. It is also the first scholarly investigation of
the external and internal factors that helped to create this female
painter's unique career in eighteenth-century Europe. It documents
the difficulties, complications, and consequences that arose then
-- and can also arise today -- when a woman decides to become an
independent artist. This book contributes a new, in-depth analysis
of the interplay between society's expectations, generally accepted
codices for gendered behaviour, and one single female painter's
astute strategies for achieving success, as well as autonomy in her
professional life as a famed artist. Some of the questions that the
author raises are: How did Carriera manage to build up her career?
How did she run her business and organize her own workshop? What
kind of artist was Carriera? Finally, what do her self-portraits
reveal in terms of self-enactment and possibly autobiographical
turning points?
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