ID - 101738603 TI - Netherlandish and Italian female portraiture in the fifteenth century : gender, identity, and the tradition of power PY - 2022 SN - 9789463728614 9463728619 9048544890 9789048544899 9048566835 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women in art. KW - Portrait painting, Italian KW - Portrait painting, Dutch KW - Women KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Dutch portrait painting KW - Italian portrait painting KW - Portraits. KW - Portraiture, Women, Netherlandish, Italian, Querelle de Femme, Patriarchy. KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Painting KW - History of civilization KW - History of Italy KW - History of the Low Countries KW - portraits KW - women [female humans] KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - Portrait painting KW - Painting, Netherlandish KW - Painting, Italian KW - Femmes KW - Femmes. KW - Portraits (peinture) KW - Peinture néerlandaise KW - Peinture KW - in art KW - Themes, motives. KW - Dans l'art KW - Thèmes, motifs. KW - Women in art KW - Painting, Dutch KW - Women. KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Social conditions. KW - To 1500 KW - Italy. KW - Netherlands. KW - Portraits KW - Italiaanse school KW - Nederlandse school KW - Portraits, Dutch KW - Portraits, Italian KW - Peinture néerlandaise KW - Thèmes, motifs. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101738603 AB - This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial activities that was especially advanced in the urbanised territories of Italy and Flanders. For this reason, the portraits in this book are by Netherlandish and Italian painters. They are simultaneously illustrative of the emancipation of the genre from its medieval idiom, and of the responses to the matrix of patriarchy, under which society was organised. <br><br>Patriarchy is an androcentric structure that places women in a paradoxical situation of legal and social disenfranchisement on the account of purported psychophysical inadequacy, whilst making them the catalysts, through arranged marriages, for the success of the spheres of power, which are controlled by men. Thus, these portraits are also a window into women's lives in this structure. This book is the first systematic study of their sign-system and of the feminine experience of seeing and being seen, at the intersection of disciplines that include art history, anthropology, legal history, philosophy. The surprising results suggest new interpretations of form and function in female portraiture, women's active role in the imaging process and the early instances of a pro-women ideology. ER -