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- Title
Female Glass Engravers in the Early Modern Dutch Republic.
- Authors
van Elk, Martine
- Abstract
This essay explores glass engravings by Dutch authors Anna Roemers Visscher, Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, and Anna Maria van Schurman. I place these engravings in their rich contemporary contexts, comparing them to other art forms that were the product of female pastime. Like embroidery, emblems, and alba amicorum , engraved glasses combined text and image, transforming each glass into an object that fulfilled key social and cultural functions. Above all, engraving glasses allowed women to forge new self-representations, specifically through their use of play to question binary oppositions and moral certainties.
- Subjects
WOMEN poets; GLASS etching; 17TH century decorative arts; VISSCHER, Anna Roemers; SCHURMAN, Anna Maria van, 1607-1678; VISSCHER, Maria Tesselschade, 1594-1649; DUTCH women authors; AUTHORS as artists; HISTORY of the Netherlands
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2020, Vol 73, Issue 1, p165
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2019.492