"Subverters and Self-Fashioners: Making Worlds of Their Own"

November 9, 2006 - 3:45-5:45 p.m.
Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland
part of Attending to Early Modern Women Symposium

organized by: Sharon Seelig (Smith College); Andrea Sununu (DePauw University)
and Anne Harris (DePauw University)

Click here for a link to the Symposium

Click here for of our Workshop

Click on the thumbnails to see bigger images of Sofonisba Anguissola's paintings!

Self-Portrait, late 1550s (top)
Chess Game, 1555 (bottom)

 

 

An article which has been crucial in shaping this discussion, and is recommended reading for our workshop, is Mary Garrard: "Here's Looking At Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist," Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994): 556-622.

reprinted in: Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism. University of California Press, 2005.

Questions or comments? aharris@depauw.edu updated 09/28/2006 www.depauw.edu