Making the invisible visible: The presence of older women artists in early modern artistic biography

Julia K. Dabbs

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Abstract

In her seminal book The Obstacle Race: the Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work (2001), Germaine Greer writes of the ridicule faced by eighteenth-century painters Anna Dorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch and Giulia Lama as they reached middle age, due to their purported lack of physical attractiveness. This chapter follows up on Greer’s work and further examines verbal and visual characterisations of older women artists of the early modern period (i.e. 1400-1800) to consider whether this discourse of humiliation was the norm, as well as to see how such characterisations compare to those of elder male artists.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAgeing Women in Literature and Visual Culture
Subtitle of host publicationReflections, Refractions, Reimaginings
PublisherSpringer International Publishing
Pages23-40
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9783319636092
ISBN (Print)9783319636085
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2017

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