Expanding interiors: architectural photographs of the Countess de Castiglione

Over the last f ive decades of the nineteenth century, Italian-born Virginia Verasis, the Countess de Castiglione (1837–1899), had French photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson take more than 400 studio photographs of her in elaborately costumed and staged tableaus, mises en scène that the Countess had a...

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1. Verfasser: Brevik-Zender, Heidi 1973- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [2021]
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Zusammenfassung:Over the last f ive decades of the nineteenth century, Italian-born Virginia Verasis, the Countess de Castiglione (1837–1899), had French photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson take more than 400 studio photographs of her in elaborately costumed and staged tableaus, mises en scène that the Countess had a strong hand in designing. This chapter examines the Countess’s photographs through the lenses of architecture, gender, and interior design. Considering the term "architect" metaphorically and literally, and drawing on trends in interior decoration from the period as well as on feminist theory related to space, this study focuses on the Countess’s taste for aesthetic excess in costuming and furnishings, and how the interiors that she designed using these tools upended traditional conceptions limiting women’s presence in space.
Beschreibung:13 Illustrationen
ISBN:978-94-6372-080-9

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