Intimate Interiors

Tara Zanardi is Associate Professor of Art History at Hunter College, CUNY. She has received fellowships from NEH, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fulbright Program, and the John Carter Brown Library. Christopher M. S. Johns was the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art at Vanderbilt University, USA, and a founding member of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture.

List of Contributors
List of Plates
List of Figures

Foreword

Introduction, Tara Zanardi (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) and Christopher M.S. Johns (Vanderbilt University, USA, until 2022)

Part 1: Power, Authority, Agency, Privacy

1. Sex, Lies, and Books: Staging Identity in the Comte d’Artois’s cabinet turc, Ashley Bruckbauer (Independent Scholar, USA)
2. Enlightenment Naples Imagines Imperial China: Queen Maria Amalia’s Chinoiserie Boudoir, Christopher M. S. Johns (Vanderbilt University, USA, until 2022)
3. Who Let the Dogs In?: The Hundezimmer in the Amalienburg Palace, Christina Lindeman (University of South Alabama, USA)
4. Material Temptations: Isabel de Farnesio and the Politics of the Bedroom, Tara Zanardi (Hunter College, CUNY, USA)

Part 2: Staging Identity and Performing Sociability

5. A Stage for Wealth and Power in Eighteenth-Century Lima the Estrado of Doña Rosa Juliana Sánchez de Tagle, First Marchioness of Torre Tagle, Jorge Rivas (Denver Art Museum, USA)
6. An Artist’s Bedrooms: Angelica Kauffman in London and Rome, Wendy Wassyng Roworth (University of Rhode Island, USA)
7. The Mask in the Dressing Room: Cosmetic Discourses and the Masquerade Toilet in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture, Sandra Gómez Todo (Independent Scholar, Spain)

Part 3: Hidden Lives and Interiority

8. Mythologies of the Boudoir: Jacques-Louis David’s The Loves of Paris and Helen, Dorothy Johnson (University of Iowa, USA)
9. Political Interiority and Spatial Seclusion in West African Royal Sleeping Rooms, Katherine Calvin (Kenyon College, USA)
10. On the Wings of Perfumed Reverie: Multisensory Construction of Elsewhere and Elite Female Authority in Marie-Antoinette’s Boudoir Turc, Hyejin Lee (Independent Scholar, USA)
11. “Virginian Luxuries” at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Maurie McInnis (Stony Brook University, USA)

Index