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Claricia or Clarica was a 13th-century German illuminator. She is noted for including a
Middle Ages Women Artists
Claricia or Clarica was a 13th-century German illuminator. She is noted for including a self-portrait
A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century tha ...
in a South German psalter
A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages, psalters we ...
of c. 1200, now in The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
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. In the self-portrait, she depicts herself as swinging from the tail of a letter Q. Additionally, she inscribed her name over her head.
Feminist studies in the field of literature and medieval art such as Whitney Chadwick
Whitney Chadwick (born 28 July 1943) is an American art historian and educator, who has published on contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, and gender and sexuality. Her book ''Women, Art and Society'' was first published by Thames and Hudson ...
and Dorothy Miner uncovered Claricia's work in one of her manuscripts. "Claricia’s hand is just one of several in this manuscript, leading Dorothy Miner to conclude on the basis of her dress – uncovered head, braided hair, and a close-fitting tunic under a long-waisted dress with long tapering points hanging from the sleeves – that she was probably a lay student at the convent."
There is controversy regarding Claricia's occupation. Scholars such as Miner believe that Claricia was a lay woman - possibly a high-born lady - active in a convent scriptorium in Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...
. Some, however, rejected that she was employed as a convent assistant, noting that the language of the psalm was derogatory.
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See also
*List of German women artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Germany or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
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* Louise Abel (1841–1907), German-born Norwegian photographer
*Tomma Abts (born 1967), abstract painter
* Elisabeth von Adl ...
Manuscript illuminators
13th-century German artists
13th-century German women
Romanesque artists
German women painters
13th-century women artists
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