Title Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science : Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch seventeenth Century / Catherine Powell-Warren

Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource (326 pages) illustrations Series Studies in Early Modernity in The Netherlands Summary At once collector, botanist, reader, artist, and patron, Agnes Block is best described as a cultural producer. A member of an influential network in her lifetime, today she remains a largely obscure figure. The socioeconomic and political barriers faced by early modern women, together with a male-dominated tradition in art history, have meant that too few stories of women's roles in the creation, production, and consumption of art have reached us. This book seeks to write Block and her contributions into the art and cultural history of the seventeenth-century Netherlands, highlighting the need for and advantages of a multifaceted approach to research on early modern women. Examining Block's achievements, relationships, and objects reveals a woman who was independent, knowledgeable, self-aware, and not above self-promotion. Though her gender brought few opportunities and many barriers, Agnes Block succeeded in fashioning herself as Flora Batava, a liefhebber at the intersection of art and science Analysis History, Art History, and Archaeology HIS Art and Material Culture ART & MAT Cultural Studies CULTURAL Dutch and The Netherlands DUTCH NL Early Modern Studies EARLY MOD Gender and Sexuality Studies GEND & SEXU Women and natural history; women participation in networks, women collectors, women cultural producers, women in knowledge communities Notes "Amsterdam University Press" Acknowledgements List of Figures and Photographic Credits Introduction Chapter 1. Vijverhof and the Pursuit of Nature Chapter 2. Vijverhof in Context Chapter 3. Vijverhof as a Space of Knowledge Creation, Exchange, and Relationships Chapter 4. Becoming Flora Batava Chapter 5. Flora Batava in Context Chapter 6. The Bloemenboek and Block's Watercolours: Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science Chapter 7. The Bloemenboek as a Meeting Place and Visual Manifestation of Agnes Block's Artistic Network Appendix A Bibliography Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 20, 2023) Subject Block, Agnes, 1629-1704. Feminism and art. Feminism and art -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century Fashion and art. History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800. Individual artists, art monographs. ART / History / Renaissance. ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals. ART / Women Artists. Fashion and art. Feminism and art. History of art. Individual artists, art monographs. Botanical art. Netherlands. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9048557674 9789048557677

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