Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe -

Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Arlene Leis, Kacie L. Wills (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
220 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-54539-0 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting.
Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe.

It recovers their lives and examines their interests, their methodologies, and their collections and objects—some of which have rarely been studied before. The book also considers women’s role as producers, that is, creators of objects that were collected. Detailed examination of the artefacts—both visually, and in relation to their historical contexts—exposes new ways of thinking about collecting in relation to the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century Europe. The book is interdisciplinary in its makeup and brings together scholars from a wide range of fields.

It will be of interest to those working in art history, material and visual culture, history of collecting, history of science, literary studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and art conservation.

Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York. Kacie L. Wills received her PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside, and is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois College.

Part I Artificialia and Naturalia






Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies’ Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg


Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy




Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici
Irina Schmiedel




Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral
Kelsey Brosnan

Part II Travel, Borders, and Networks




Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman’s Pioneering Work in Entomology
Katharina Schmidt-Loske




Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange
Erica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills




Conversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of Enlightenment
Lizzie Rogers




Portrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in Transit
Maria Antonietta Spadero

8. The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in 18th Century Russia: Pioneering Action or Sheer Demonstration of Power? Charis Ch. Avlonitou

Part III Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing




‘I made memorandums’: Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Collection
Madeleine Pelling




Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade Caryatid
Nicole Cochrane




Anne Wagner’s Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine Friendship
Ryna Ordynat




An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman
Hanneke Grootenboer

Part IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century




Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House
Anna Frances O’Regan




Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady’s collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans



Arlene Leis

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
Zusatzinfo 3 Tables, black and white; 12 Halftones, color; 15 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, color; 25 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 580 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Reisen Reiseführer
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-367-54539-X / 036754539X
ISBN-13 978-0-367-54539-0 / 9780367545390
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