Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century

Catherine Powell-Warren

doi:10.1017/9789048557677

Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science

Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century

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Catherine Powell-Warren, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9789048557677
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048557677

Series:: Studies in Early Modernity in the Netherlands
Subjects:: Art, Western Art

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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.

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Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science

Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Dedication
pp 5-6

Contents
pp 7-8

List of Figures and Photographic Credits
pp 9-12

Acknowledgements
pp 13-14

Introduction
pp 15-28

1 - Vijverhof and the Pursuit of Nature
pp 29-66

2 - Vijverhof in Context
pp 67-90

3 - Vijverhof as a Space of Knowledge Creation, Exchange, and Relationships
pp 91-126

4 - Becoming Flora Batava
pp 127-170

5 - Flora Batava in Context
pp 171-206

6 - The Bloemenboek and Block’s Watercolours: Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science
pp 207-242

7 - The Bloemenboek as a Meeting Place and Visual Manifestation of Agnes Block’s Artistic Network
pp 243-262

Conclusion
pp 263-266

Appendix A
pp 267-270

Bibliography
pp 271-296

Index
pp 297-302

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