CONFERENCE: Just 'beautiful and charming'? Gender-theoretical perspectives in miniature painting (1600–1900).

CONFERENCE: Just 'beautiful and charming'? Gender-theoretical perspectives in miniature painting (1600–1900).

From

9

To

10 July

We will be attending this conference studying gender-theoretical perspectives on production, reception and representation in miniature painting (1600–1900). The conference is organised by Dr. Mirja Beck and will be held at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M., 9-11 July 2026.

Since the end of the eighteenth century both women artists and miniature painting became increasingly important in public art. The interrelation between the two has nevertheless hardly been explored to date. A systematic study of women miniature painters is still lacking, despite the fact that the proportion of women miniature artists was considerably higher than in other visible art forms. Following Linda Nochlin, we want to discuss in our conference the question: Why have there been so many great women miniature artists (and why do we know so little about them)?

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Image: Attributed to JOAN CARLILE (1600-1679) Portrait of a Lady; circa 1650 - previously sold by The Limner Company.
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