Title

Making the Invisible Visible: The Presence of Older Women Artists in Early Modern Artistic Biography

Authors

Julia K. Dabbs, University of Minnesota, MorrisFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2017

Embargo Period

11-23-2020

Publication Title

Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings

Abstract

One intention of this chapter is to reverse the current misapprehension of the longevity of early modern women artists, and render these “invisible” elder women creators more visible. Yet in addition, I will consider how the woman artist was characterized by her biographer in old age, and provide some comparison with literary tropes associated with elder male artists of the period, to see to what extent gender may have factored into cultural perceptions and attitudes towards old age.

First Page

23

Last Page

40

Comments

This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319636085

This book chapter is embargoed until November 23, 2020, and will be available for download on that date.

Rights

Julia Dabbs, "Making the Invisible Visible: The Presence of Older Women Artists in Early Modern Artistic Biography," Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings, 2017, Palgrave Macmillan reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.

Recommended Citation

Dabbs, Julia K. “Making the Invisible Visible: The Presence of Older Women Artists in Early Modern Artistic Biography.” Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture. Eds. Cathy McGlynn, Margaret O’Neill and Michaela Schrage-Früh. Springer/Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 23-40.

Primo Type

Book Chapter