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Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665)--painter, printmaker, and teacher--was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese school. The daughter of a painter, she hailed from a city whose university was believed to have had educated women since the Middle Ages and that celebrated the cult of Saint Catherine of Bologna, who was known for her skill as a painter and illuminator--ideal conditions to encourage the training and patronage of skilled women artists. Drawing on extensive archival documentation and primary sources, including inventories, sale catalogues, and Sirani's work diary, this book provides an overview of the brief life, fascinating oeuvre, critical fortune, and cultural legacy of this successful Baroque artist.

Women painters --- Painters --- Sirani, Elisabetta --- ART / Women Artists. --- Painters. --- Women painters. --- Sirani, Elisabetta, --- Italy --- Painting, Italian

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"Gathering together nearly 300 objects, including paintings, prints, scientific illustrations, textiles, sculpture, metalwork and furniture, "Making Her Mark" illuminates the astonishing diversity and breadth of female contributions to art of the pre-modern era (c. 1400-1800). In this important re-examination of early modern European art, an international team of scholars and curators assess the critical concepts that have shaped Western culture's understanding of what constitutes great art. In its recalibration of gender imbalances, this impressive volume offers an alternative view of the history of European art and sheds light on the collaborative nature of the creation of individual works and the interconnected histories of literature, politics, religion, science, and economics. Ambitious in its scope, "Making Her Mark" is a bold corrective to the assumption that female artists of the past were rare and that their work was unremarkable. The result is a dynamic introduction to scores of women artists whose names are entirely new and a long-overdue reassessment of the art, culture, and history of early modern Europe."--

ART / Women Artists. --- Art européen --- Art, European --- Art, European. --- Artistes --- Artists --- Artists. --- Femmes artistes --- Women artists --- Women artists. --- Histoire --- History --- Europe. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Art --- vrouwelijke kunstenaar --- vrouwengeschiedenis --- women [female humans] --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Europe

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"At once collector, botanist, reader, artist, and patron, Agnes Block is best described as a cultural producer. A member of an influential network in her lifetime, today she remains a largely obscure figure. The socioeconomic and political barriers faced by early modern women, together with a male-dominated tradition in art history, have meant that too few stories of women's roles in the creation, production, and consumption of art have reached us. This book seeks to write Block and her contributions into the art and cultural history of the seventeenth-century Netherlands, highlighting the need for and advantages of a multifaceted approach to research on early modern women. Examining Block's achievements, relationships, and objects reveals a woman who was independent, knowledgeable, self-aware, and not above self-promotion. Though her gender brought few opportunities and many barriers, Agnes Block succeeded in fashioning herself as Flora Batava, a liefhebber at the intersection of art and science."--

Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Art --- art history --- Block, Agnes --- Netherlands --- Art, Dutch --- Art néerlandais --- History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800. --- Individual artists, art monographs. --- ART / History / Renaissance. --- ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals. --- ART / Women Artists. --- History of art. --- Botanical art. --- Collectors and collecting --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Block, Agnes, --- Women and natural history; women participation in networks, women collectors, women cultural producers, women in knowledge communities --- Art néerlandais --- Collectors and collecting. --- Collectionneurs et collections. --- History, Art History, and Archaeology --- HIS --- Art and Material Culture --- ART & MAT --- Cultural Studies --- CULTURAL --- Dutch and The Netherlands --- DUTCH NL --- Early Modern Studies --- EARLY MOD --- Gender and Sexuality Studies --- GEND & SEXU --- Fashion and art. --- Feminism and art. --- Feminism and art --- History