Cover
Title
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Plates
Introduction
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
Carriera’s Portrait of Philip Wharton (1698–1731)
Carriera’s Daring Eroticism
The Young Girl as a Gardener in Munich
Miniature Mythologies
Carriera and the Sister Arts
Carriera’s Lady Putting Flowers in her Hair
Carriera’s Clients of Erotic Art
A Short History of Pastel Painting
Successful Ambassador of a Neglected Technique
Carriera in the Art World of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Venice
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 Accadémie de Peinture et de Sculpture
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
And further on Malamani remarks:
Carriera in Modena
Carriera in Vienna
The End of an Enviable Career
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, c.1746
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names
Back Cover