Date of Award
Spring 5-3-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Kim de Beaumont
Second Advisor
Cynthia Hahn
Academic Program Adviser
Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Abstract
Highlighting the fissures that run through Early Modern ideas of manliness and femininity, this paper seeks to describe how, alongside pervasive imagery of pensive gentlemen, female artists of the seventeenth century developed their own deeply symbolic form of melancholic posturing, offering a groundbreaking redefinition of gender and genius in the Seicento.
Recommended Citation
DiGiovanna, Rebecca, "Melancholic Maestrae: Gender, Genius, and Self-Fashioning in Baroque Female Archetypes" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1181
Included in
Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons