The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) : : The Queen of Pastel / / Angela Oberer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Oberer, Angela,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Udgivelsesår: 2020
• Sprog: English
• Serier: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 24
• Fysisk beskrivelse: 1 online resource (326 p.)

The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), The Queen of Pastel, is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera. It is also the first scholarly investigation into the external and internal factors that helped to create this female painter's unique career in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures and Plates
• Introduction
• 1. Rosalba Carriera – An Independent Single Artist in Eighteenth-Century Venice
• 2. Carriera’s Discovery of Pastel Painting
• 3. Carriera’s International Network
• 4. Carriera’s Stay in Paris
• 5. Carriera’s Oeuvre in Pastel
• 6. The Single Woman, the Spinster
• 7. Carriera’s Last Journeys – The End of an E`nviable Career
• 8. Carriera’s Ways of Self-Fashioning
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index of Names