Female Glass Engravers in the Early Modern Dutch Republic
This essay explores glass engravings by Dutch authors Anna Roemers Visscher, Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, and Anna Maria van Schurman. I place these engravings in their rich contemporary contexts, comparing them to other art forms that were the product of female pastime. Like embroidery, emblems, and alba amicorum, engraved glasses combined text and image, transforming each glass into an object that fulfilled key social and cultural functions. Above all, engraving glasses allowed women to forge new self-representations, specifically through their use of play to question binary oppositi... Mehr ...
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| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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| Schlagwörter: | 1177198:Women authors:topical / 1119851:Sixteenth century:topical / 1113663:Seventeenth century:topical / 943068:Glass art:topical / 899846:Dutch literature:topical / 899688:Dutch--Social life and customs:topical |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26631700 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.17613/5ntg-xw59 |
This essay explores glass engravings by Dutch authors Anna Roemers Visscher, Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, and Anna Maria van Schurman. I place these engravings in their rich contemporary contexts, comparing them to other art forms that were the product of female pastime. Like embroidery, emblems, and alba amicorum, engraved glasses combined text and image, transforming each glass into an object that fulfilled key social and cultural functions. Above all, engraving glasses allowed women to forge new self-representations, specifically through their use of play to question binary oppositions and moral certainties.