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

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 e...

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Main Author: Oberer, Angela (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
Series:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rosalba Carriera
  • an independent single artist in eighteenth-century Venice
  • Carriera's discovery of pastel painting
  • Carriera's international network
  • Carriera's stay in Paris
  • Carriera's oeuvre in pastel
  • The single woman, the spinster
  • Carriera's last journeys
  • the end of an enviable career
  • Carriera's ways of self-fashioning.