Eva/Ave: Women In Renaissance And Baroque Prints
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Few artistic periods have scrutinised the female form and feminine identity as relentlessly as the Renaissance and Baroque eras, and Eva/Ave: Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints presents a fascinating study of how women were depicted, idealised, and condemned across five centuries of European printmaking. Drawing on a rich collection of engravings, woodcuts, and etchings, the catalogue chronicles the dual archetypes of Eve—the fallen temptress—and Ave (Ave Maria), the virtuous ideal, tracing how these polarised images shaped the cultural and spiritual imagination of an entire civilisation. The works gathered here span the great print traditions of Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and France, presenting masterworks by Dürer, Rembrandt, and their contemporaries alongside lesser-known but equally compelling artists. The catalogue argues that prints, as the mass media of their day, were uniquely powerful in disseminating and reinforcing social constructs around womanhood, morality, and religious devotion. Scholarly yet accessible, the accompanying essays illuminate the iconographic traditions behind each image, revealing how the same female body could simultaneously embody sin and salvation. For anyone drawn to the intersection of gender, faith, and art history, this volume poses a question as urgent today as it was in the age of Gutenberg: who holds the power to define a woman's worth?
Author: H. Diane Russell; Bernadine Barnes
Format: Paperback
Published: 1990, National Gallery of Art
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A - softcover/catalogue. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few artistic periods have scrutinised the female form and feminine identity as relentlessly as the Renaissance and Baroque eras, and Eva/Ave: Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints presents a fascinating study of how women were depicted, idealised, and condemned across five centuries of European printmaking. Drawing on a rich collection of engravings, woodcuts, and etchings, the catalogue chronicles the dual archetypes of Eve—the fallen temptress—and Ave (Ave Maria), the virtuous ideal, tracing how these polarised images shaped the cultural and spiritual imagination of an entire civilisation. The works gathered here span the great print traditions of Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and France, presenting masterworks by Dürer, Rembrandt, and their contemporaries alongside lesser-known but equally compelling artists. The catalogue argues that prints, as the mass media of their day, were uniquely powerful in disseminating and reinforcing social constructs around womanhood, morality, and religious devotion. Scholarly yet accessible, the accompanying essays illuminate the iconographic traditions behind each image, revealing how the same female body could simultaneously embody sin and salvation. For anyone drawn to the intersection of gender, faith, and art history, this volume poses a question as urgent today as it was in the age of Gutenberg: who holds the power to define a woman's worth?