Cole Michael W.
Cole Michael W. - Sofonisba's Lesson A Renaissance Artist And Her Work - Hardcover
Cole Michael W. - Sofonisba's Lesson A Renaissance Artist And Her Work - Hardcover
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Description: The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the Renaissance Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535 1625) was the daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house. She went on to serve as an instructor to Isabel of Valois the young queen of Spain. Sofonisba's Lesson sheds new light on Sofonisba's work offering a major reassessment of a Renaissance painter who changed the image of women's education in Europe and who transformed Western attitudes about who could be an artist. In this book Michael Cole demonstrates how teaching and learning were central themes of Sofonisba's art which shows women learning to read play chess and paint. He looks at how her pictures challenged conventional ideas about the teaching of young girls and he discusses her place in the history of the amateur a new Renaissance type. The book examines Sofonisba's relationships with the group of people for whom her practice was important her father Amilcare her teacher Bernardino Campi the men and women who sought to be associated with her and her sisters and the other young women who followed her path. Sofonisba's Lesson concludes with a complete illustrated catalog of the more than two hundred known paintings and drawings that writers have associated with Sofonisba over the past 450 years with a full accounting of modern scholarly opinion on each.
Title: Sofonisba's Lesson A Renaissance Artist And Her Work
Author(s): Cole Michael W.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691198323
Pages: 312 Pages, 256 Color + 25 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 2/11/2020
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
Description: The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the Renaissance Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535 1625) was the daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house. She went on to serve as an instructor to Isabel of Valois the young queen of Spain. Sofonisba's Lesson sheds new light on Sofonisba's work offering a major reassessment of a Renaissance painter who changed the image of women's education in Europe and who transformed Western attitudes about who could be an artist. In this book Michael Cole demonstrates how teaching and learning were central themes of Sofonisba's art which shows women learning to read play chess and paint. He looks at how her pictures challenged conventional ideas about the teaching of young girls and he discusses her place in the history of the amateur a new Renaissance type. The book examines Sofonisba's relationships with the group of people for whom her practice was important her father Amilcare her teacher Bernardino Campi the men and women who sought to be associated with her and her sisters and the other young women who followed her path. Sofonisba's Lesson concludes with a complete illustrated catalog of the more than two hundred known paintings and drawings that writers have associated with Sofonisba over the past 450 years with a full accounting of modern scholarly opinion on each.
Title: Sofonisba's Lesson A Renaissance Artist And Her Work
Author(s): Cole Michael W.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691198323
Pages: 312 Pages, 256 Color + 25 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 2/11/2020
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
