Anna Maria van Schurman
Self-Portraiture, Female Scholarly Identity, and the Republic of Letters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10425532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne R Larsen (0000-0001-8918-1116, Hope College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 879-922 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rqx.2024.209 |
| OpenAlex | W4408153178 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
This essay argues that emerging scholar and artist Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–78) disseminated her 1633 engraved self-portrait as a bid to enter the Republic of Letters and add her voice to the Europe-wide debate on women’s intellectual equality. To assess the portrait’s significance, I examine its sociocultural and artistic complexities, as well as its effect on two elite viewers, poet and diplomat Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687) and Neo-Latin poet Caspar Barlaeus (1584–1648). I conclude that although Van Schurman was unable to control the responses to her self-portraiture, its circulation afforded a crucial inflection point in her life’s journey, both outward and inward
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Genealogy · Identity (music · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Inventing Fame
Between Men
Portrait of the King
Women Latin Poets
Early Modern Women's Writing
The “talented hands” of Giovanna Garzoni
Female Glass Engravers in the Early Modern Dutch Republic
Labour Ideologies and Women in the Northern Netherlands, c.1500–1800
New Perspectives of the Digitized Correspondence of Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687)
Women and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |