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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At once collector, botanist, reader, artist, and patron, Agnes Block is best described as a cultural producer. 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.