Saints, Sinners, and Sisters: Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Maria Crăciun|Jane L. Carroll|Alison G. Stewart
Contents: Preface Introduction Saints and Sinners: Saints: Virtuous model/voluptuous martyr: the suicide of Lucretia in northern renaissance art her relationship to late medieval devotional imagery, Carol M. Schuler JArg Breu Elder's Death Lucretia: history, sexuality State, Pia F. Cuneo Domesticity public sphere, Martha Moffitt Peacock The gothic mirror female gaze, Susan L. Smith DA1/4rer's Four Witches reconsidered, Linda C. Hults Distaffs spindles. Virtue Sebald Beham's Spinning Bee, Alison G. Stewart Sisters, Wives, Poets: Richildis seal: Carolingian self-reference imagery power, Genevra Kornbluth Woven devotions. Reform piety tapestries by Dominican nuns, Jane Carroll many wives Adam Kraft: artists' legal documents, art-historical scholarship, historical fiction, Corine Schleif From shrew poetess:two non-traditional roles evoked a curious painting Gabriel Metsu, Stone-Ferrier Together misery: medical meaning, sexual politics two paintings Jan Steen, Laurinda S. Dixon Index.
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