Foster, LauraGeorgi, KarenAvanesian, Anaiis2024-10-182024-10-182023Avanesian, Anaiis. "A Larger Look at a Miniature Painter: Exploring the Career of Eighteenth-Century Miniaturist, Maria Felice Tibaldi". Master's Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2023.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/545Master of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Fall 2023.Active in Rome during the first half of the eighteenth century, Maria Felice Tibaldi Subleyras was a well-known miniature painter and portraitist. While she enjoyed considerable fame and academic recognition in her own time, today she is mostly forgotten with little scholarship available regarding her work and career. Her most famous work, Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee, is located in the Pinacoteca Capitolina, and remains the only work by the artists on public display in Rome today. Using this work and its unique signature as a point of departure this thesis utilizes a largely contextual approach to analyze and expand upon the existing scholarship, and further explore the contours of Maria Felice Tibaldi’s career. The goal of this research is to gain a deeper understanding of her personal practice, her business relationships, and her skills, while examining the intentional obstacles in her path as a woman artist not only during her lifetime, but also the historiographical problems that have today left her largely as a footnote.vii, 58 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Tibaldi, Maria FeliceMiniature paintingThesis