Noelia García Perézcase - MAP FORUM

MAP FORUM - 15 October 2024
Portraiture, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth Century Art. Creating and Promoting the Public Image of Early Modern Women.
This book explores the construction and dissemination of the image of female power during the Renaissance. It analyzes how women in power created, promoted, and displayed their image, using artistic and cultural patronage to strengthen their authority and political legitimacy. The chapters cover different models of 16th-century female power, from ruling queens and regents to noblewomen outside the court, in regions like England, France, Castile, the Low Countries, the Holy Roman Empire, and Italian city-states. The book also addresses debates on portraiture and the evolving strategies artists used to represent these women.
Noelia García Pérez is titular professor of Art History at the University of Murcia. Her principal lines of research focus on female artistic patronage and the relationship between art, power and gender in the Renaissance. She is currently the principal researcher in the research project Portrait medals and female power in Renaissance Europe (I): Women of the Spanish monarchy. She is the academic director of the Female Perspective project at the Prado Museum.