1st Edition
Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung A Visual Metamorphosis in Portraiture from Political to Personal in Eighteenth-Century Germany
By Christina K. Lindeman
Copyright 2017
222 Pages
8 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
8 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
8 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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 Bildung
6 Anna Amalia’s Gedenktafel: The Making of an Icon
Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index
Biography
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.
