Picturing women in late Medieval and Renaissance art / Christa Grossinger.
By: Grössinger, Christa
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BookSeries: Manchester medieval studies.Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1997Description: ix, 173 p. : ill. ; 22 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0719041104.Subject(s): Women in art | Art, Late Gothic | Art, Early RenaissanceDDC classification: 704.9424
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 704.9424 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00054620 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories - the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried women and the style and use of these images exposes the full extent of the misogyny entrenched in medieval society.
Bibliography: p. 161-165. - Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction Antithesis
- The Good Woman
- The Evil Woman
- Women Beyond the Pale
- The Ages of Women