Women Artists, Agents, and Influencers in Early Modern Europe

Examines the ways in which gender affected and informed theories of creativity, artistic style, critical reception, patronage, collecting and training in early modern Europe and its colonies. Focuses on specific women, whose work or influence substantially affected the developing canon of western European art: artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1654) or Queen Mary of Hungary, whose collection of paintings by Titian surpassed her Habsburg male relatives.