Louise Hollandine and the Art of Arachnean Critique
Reid, Lindsay Ann
Reid, Lindsay Ann
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2019-07-22
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Reid, Lindsay Ann Louise Hollandine and the Art of Arachnean Critique. In Elizabeth Sutton (Ed.), Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (pp. 113-142). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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Louise Hollandine was an artist and student of internationally renowned Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst. Though relatively few works now survive that can be authoritatively ascribed to her, Louise Hollandine s artistic reputation is flatteringly memorialized in Richard Lovelace s seldom-remarked poem Princesse Löysa Drawing. Princesse Löysa Drawing reworks in surprising and nuanced ways the celebrated weaving contest between Arachne and Minerva from Book 6 of Ovid's Metamorphoses. After briefly establishing the broader social contexts in which both this Princess Palatine and Lovelace operated, this chapter presents a sustained literary analysis of Princesse Löysa Drawing, exploring both its intertextual, literary connections with Metamorphoses 6 and its relation to two Ovidian portraits historiés by Louise Hollandine, The Daughters of Cecrops and Vertumnus and Pomona.
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