Review
Angelica Kauffmann, the Elusive Painter
Eighteenth - Century Studies, Vol.41(4), pp.578-585
07/01/2008
DOI: 10.1353/ecs.0.0014
Abstract
The austro-Swiss painter angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) was an eighteenth- century celebrity. (i will use this spelling for her name, although it varies in the books reviewed here.) She had an extraordinary international career and reputation. a child prodigy, she was cleverly introduced and marketed by her father to patrons of the nobility, to artists and to Grand tourists in italy. in 1766, at age twenty-five, she moved with her father to London where she established a studio and was soon much hailed by London society, which one engraver pronounced was nothing less than "angelicamad." The essays in the catalogue draw on both art-historical and literary approaches to Kauffmann, two methods that in the past depicted the artist in very different ways.\n Rosenthal claims that Kauffmann's portrayal of male sitters was "a civilizing process" (7), which resulted in the rendition of "a chastened and 'sensible' masculinity" (8)-and in caricatures of the painter. Rosenthal stresses that Kauffmann negotiated women's roles in all these aspects in her works (through composition, figural style, narrative codes, choice of subject matter, and allegorical and mythological self-fashioning), in painting as a profession, and in her individual case as a woman artist and arbiter of taste (3).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Angelica Kauffmann, the Elusive Painter
- Creators
- Waltraud Maierhofer
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Eighteenth - Century Studies, Vol.41(4), pp.578-585
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press; Baltimore
- DOI
- 10.1353/ecs.0.0014
- ISSN
- 0013-2586
- eISSN
- 1086-315X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- German; Interdisciplinary Programs; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984399030202771
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