Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung. A visual metamorphosis in portraiture from political to personal in eighteenth-century Germany. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christina K. Lindeman.
• Other Names: Lindeman, Christina K
• Contents: Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Gender and Bildung; Portraying Bildung; Why portraiture?; Chapter overview; Notes; 1 Setting the stage; Notes; 2 Composing a musical portrait; Music, the female sex, and body politics; Playing music in familial and gendered relationships; Composer not performer; Musical life in Weimar; Notes; 3 Representing the female Grand Tourist; The Grand Tour; Anna Amalia's voyage; Rome 1788; Notes; 4 The scientific lady in Naples Intellectual and social climate of NaplesThe German community in Naples; Gendered souvenirs; The antiquarian portrait; Notes; 5 Materializing Anna Amalia's Bildung; The cult of the good mother; Royal women as good mothers; Gendering drawing; The Weimar Minerva; Print collecting in eighteenth-.century Germany; Reading Jagemann's portrait in the context of Wittumspalais; Notes; 6 Anna Amalia's Gedenktafel: The making of an icon ; The spectacle of death and remembering in the public sphere; The memorial and romantic nationalism; Personal mourning; Notes; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 940.2; ART / Art & Politics; HISTORY / Europe / Western; ART / European; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351768054; 1351768050
• Related ISBNs: 9781472467386; 1472467388
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.