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Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting. Ideology, Practice, and Criticism focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expression in stylistic diversity. The flourishing of different stylistic approaches in the Mannerist paintings of the previous generation evolved, at the turn the seventeenth century, in the work of the Bolognese painters into an approach best described as eclecticism, characterized by the combination of two or more styles in a single work of art. Eclectism was a major innovation and major contribution to the history of art. But it then also became a critical term that suffered much negative press. The book therefore also traces the role of ecclecticism as a concept in the evolution of criticism and scholarship about the Bolognese school of painting over 250 years, showing how the dramatically vacillating attitudes towards this concept shaped the historical view of the Bolognese painters, ultimately having a tremendous dampening impact on our understanding of seventeenth-century art.

Painting --- eclecticism --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Bologna --- Painting, Italian --- Painting, Modern. --- Modern painting --- Paintings, Modern --- Oil painting --- Painting, Primitive --- Paintings --- Graphic arts --- Italian painting --- History. --- Eclecticism, selective imitation, Paleotti, Carracci, Malvasia. --- eclecticism [artistic concept] --- Bologna, school van

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Examines sixty-eight women artists in early modern Bologna, revealing how they obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subjects to which women were traditionally confined. Uses new methodological models for considering gender and art in early modern Italy. This groundbreaking book seeks to explain why women artists were far more numerous, diverse, and successful in early modern Bologna than elsewhere in Italy. They worked as painters, sculptors, printmakers, and embroiderers; many obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subjects to which women were traditionally confined. Babette Bohn asks why that was the case in this particular place and at this particular time. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bohn investigates an astonishing sixty-eight women artists, including Elisabetta Sirani and Lavinia Fontana. The book identifies and explores the factors that facilitated their success, including local biographers who celebrated women artists in new ways, an unusually diverse system of artistic patronage that included citizens from all classes, the impact of Bologna’s venerable university, an abundance of women writers, and the frequency of self-portraits and signed paintings by many women artists. In tracing the evolution of Bologna’s female artists from nun-painters to working professionals, Bohn proposes new attributions and interpretations of their works, some of which are reproduced here for the first time. Featuring original methodological models, innovative and historically grounded insights, and new documentation, this book will be a crucial resource for art historians, historians, and women’s studies scholars and students.

Women artists --- Art, Italian --- Italian art --- Bamboccianti (Group of artists) --- Corrente (Group of artists) --- Cracking Art (Group of artists) --- Fronte nuovo delle arti (Group of artists) --- Geometria e ricerca (Group of artists) --- Girasole (Group of artists) --- Gruppo 1 (Group of artists) --- Gruppo Aniconismo dialettico (Group of artists) --- Gruppo di Como (Group of artists) --- Gruppo di Scicli (Group of artists) --- Gruppo Enne (Group of artists) --- Gruppo Forma uno (Group of artists) --- Italiens de Paris (Group of artists) --- Mutus Liber (Group of artists) --- Novecento italiano (Group of artists) --- Nuovi-nuovi (Group of artists) --- Origine (Group of artists) --- Sei pittori di Torino (Group of artists) --- Transvisionismo (Group of artists) --- Artists, Women --- Women as artists --- Artists --- History --- Art --- patronage --- anno 1500-1799 --- Bologna --- Art, Italian. --- Women artists. --- Italy --- art history --- vrouwelijke kunstenaar --- Bologna, school van