Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints - Softcover

Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints.

paperback. Zustand: Sehr gut. 238 S. Tadelloses, sauberes Ex. - Saint, temptress, witch, virgin: "woman" in Renaissance and baroque prints represented quintessential good and evil, Mary and Eve, Reproduced here are over iso prints by male artists from 1480 to the later seventeenth century, virtually all from the holdings of the National Gallery of Art but never before exhibited together. Including work by Dürer, Cranach, Castiglione, and Rembrandt, the collection represents the development of printmaking throughout western Europe and reflects the changing perceptions of gender that accompanied the Protestant Reformation and the rise of capitalism. Inexpensive and easily replicated, these images, argues curator H. Diane Rumeli, "did not belong in some ranfied culrural category"; they were a powerful conduit of gender stereotypes, as popular and compelling as are television, mapucines, movies, and billboards today. In a critical introduction, the provides a hatory of women's lives in the cra and examines the power of the printed image to influence and mirror popular conceptions of gender, both in the past and as we respond to them now. The iconography of each print is fully documented, and short emays detail the sty listic conventions and common themes that unify this diverse and comprehensive collection ISBN 9781558610408 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450. Artikel-Nr. 1237381

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