The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757)

First extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera, and first scholarly investigation of the external and internal factors that helped to create this female painter's unique career in 18th-century Europe.

List of Figures, Introduction, 1 Rosalba Carriera - An Independent Single Artist in Eighteenth-Century Venice, Carriera's Early Years, Influential Friends, The Beginning of a Career: Carriera, an Exceptional Venetian Miniature Painter, Carriera's Membership in the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, A New Reading of Carriera's World en miniature, Carriera's Portrait of Philip Wharton (1698-1731), Carriera's Daring Eroticism, The Young Gardener in Munich, Miniature Mythologies, Carriera and the Sister Arts, Carriera's Lady Putting Flowers in her Hair, Carriera's Clients of Erotic Art, 2 Carriera's Discovery of Pastel Painting, A Short History of Pastel Painting, Successful Ambassador of a Neglected Technique. Carriera in the Art World of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Venice, 3 Carriera's International Network, Attacked by the British, Carriera and the French, German Travellers on the Grand Tour, The Italianate Climate in Düsseldorf, The House of Wittelsbach, The Importance of 'Owning a Carriera', 4 Carriera's Stay in Paris, Carriera's Admittance into the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture, 5 Carriera's Oeuvre in Pastel, Carriera's Portraits within the Venetian Tradition, From Unifying Formula to Character Studies, The Importance of 'Being a Carriera', Carriera's 'Galleries of Beauty', Character Studies and Erotica, Carriera's Favourite Pupil, Felicita Sartori, Carriera's Young Lady with a Parrot, Portrait or Allegory?, Mythological Subjects, The Reception of Carriera's Erotic Pastels, Carriera's Religious Works for Dresden, 6 The Single Woman, the Spinster, 7 Carriera's Last Journeys - The End of an Enviable Career, Carriera in Modena, Carriera in Vienna, The End of an Enviable Career, 8 Carriera's Ways of Self-Fashioning, Carriera's House on the Grand Canal, a Fashionable Space of Self-Representation, Self-Fashioning through Self-Portraits, Carriera's Earliest Self-Portrait, Carriera's Self-Portrait in the Uffizi, Carriera's Self-Portrait as Winter in Dresden, 1730-31, Carriera's Self-Portrait in Old Age in Windsor Castle, c.1744, Carriera's Self-Portrait in the Accademia in Venice, 1746, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index of Names.