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Book SynopsisThis essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women were prominent as creators in their own time and deserve to be recognized as such today.
Trade Review"The essays in this volume convincingly highlight women artists’ valuable contribution to their field and, in doing so challenge the traditional bias in art historical research. [...] The volume is exactly what it promises to be: an example of the new and promising scholarship on the importance of early modern female artists."
- Lieke van Deinsen,
Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, 41.1 (2021)
"A timely intervention for the field of Netherlandish art at large. Not only does it offer a useful selection of case studies, the book issues a provocative call for greater scholarly self-reflection on the systems that continue to erase, downplay, or omit women’s names, tastes, artistry, and labor. [...] This is a vital and highly recommended volume that hopefully heralds new directions to come."
- Elisabeth Berry Drago,
Historians of Netherlandish Art, March 2021
"This short but stimulating collection of seven essays [...] challenges traditional approaches to the study of women’s roles in Netherlandish art during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Each essay is characterized by this spirit of innovation, raising questions about art historical methods and choice of subjects."
- Babette Bohn,
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 2
Table of Contents1. Introduction: An Historiographical Perspective on Women Making Netherlandish Art History." Elizabeth Sutton. 2. "Catharina Van Hemessen's Self-Portrait: The Woman Who Took Saint Luke's Palette." Céline Telon. 3. "By Candlelight: Uncovering Early Modern Women's Creative Uses of Night." Nicole Cook. 4. "In Living Memory: Architecture, Gardens, and Identity at Huis ten Bosch." Saskia Beranek. 5. "The Arachnean Artist in Lovelace's "Princesse Löysa Drawing." Lindsay Reid. 6. "Reclaiming Reproductive Printmaking." Amy Frederick. 7. "Towards an Understanding of Mayken Verhulst and Volkcxen Diericx." Art DiFuria.
