TY - BOOK AU - Powell-Warren,Catherine TI - Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century T2 - Studies in Early Modernity in The Netherlands SN - 9789048557677 AV - N72.F45 P68 2024 U1 - 704/.042 23/eng/20231207 PY - 2023///] CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Art KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Netherlands KW - Fashion and art KW - Feminism and art KW - Women art collectors KW - Biography KW - Art and Material Culture KW - Cultural Studies KW - Dutch and The Netherlands KW - Early Modern Studies KW - Gender and Sexuality Studies KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - ART / History / Renaissance KW - bisacsh KW - Women and natural history KW - women participation in networks, women collectors, women cultural producers, women in knowledge communities N1 - Frontmatter --; Studies in Early Modernity in the Netherlands --; Table of Contents --; List of Figures and Photographic Credits --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. Vijverhof and the Pursuit of Nature --; 2. Vijverhof in Context --; 3. Vijverhof as a Space of Knowledge Creation, Exchange, and Relationships --; 4. Becoming Flora Batava --; 5. Flora Batava in Context --; 6. The Bloemenboek and Block’s Watercolours: Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science --; 7. The Bloemenboek as a Meeting Place and Visual Manifestation of Agnes Block’s Artistic Network --; Conclusion --; Appendix A --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048557677?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048557677 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048557677/original ER -