The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera 16731757 The Queen of Pastel is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera. It is also the first scholarly investigation of the external and internal factors that helped to create this female painters unique career in eighteenthcentury Europe. It documents the difficulties complications and consequences that arose then and can also arise today when a woman decides to become an independent artist. This book contributes a