Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung

A Visual Metamorphosis in Portraiture from Political to Personal in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Christina K. Lindeman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-47685-8 (ISBN)

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The cultural milieu in the “Age of Goethe” of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers’ patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach. An important noblewoman and patron of the arts, Anna Amalia transformed her court into one of the most intellectually and culturally brilliant in Europe; this book reveals the full scope of her impact on the history of art of this time and place. More than just biography or a patronage study, this book closely examines the art produced by German-speaking artists and the figure of Anna Amalia herself. Her portraits demonstrate the importance of social networks that enabled her to construct scholarly, intellectual identities not only for herself, but for the region she represented. By investigating ways in which the duchess navigated within male-dominated institutions as a means of advancing her own self-cultivation – or Bildung – this book demonstrates the role accorded to women in the public sphere, cultural politics, and historical memory. Cumulatively, Christina K. Lindeman traces how Anna Amalia, a woman from a small German principality, was represented as an active participant in enlightened discourses. The author presents a novel and original argument concerned with how a powerful woman used art to shape her identity, how that identity changed over time, and how people around her shaped it – an approach that elucidates the power of portraiture in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

Christina K. Lindeman is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of South Alabama. A scholar of eighteenth-century art and material culture, she has contributed essays to edited volumes and Source.

Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Setting the Stage

2 Composing a Musical Portrait

3 Representing the Female Grand Tourist

4 The Scientific Lady in Naples

5 Materializing Anna Amalia’s Bildung6 Anna Amalia’s Gedenktafel: The Making of an Icon

Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Gender and Art
Zusatzinfo	8 Halftones, color; 36 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color; 36 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	403 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-032-47685-0 / 1032476850
ISBN-13	978-1-032-47685-8 / 9781032476858
Zustand	Neuware