Two Women Painters from the Late RenaissanceAnnemarie Jordan Gschwend
Holladay, her husband, in 1981, it was the first museum of its kind in the world. By the 21st century the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) was housing a collection of about 6,000 works dating from the Renaissance to the present by female, transgender, and nonbinary artists...
“Why have there been no great women artists?” The question tolls reproachfully in the background of most discussions of the so-called woman problem. But like so many other so-called questions involved in the feminist “controversy,” it falsifies the nature of the issue at the same time t...
Romulus later organized the rape of the Sabine women to populate his new city. Romulus regelde later de verkrachting van de Sabijnse vrouwen om zijn nieuwe stad te kunnen bevolken. Literature (The“rape of the Sabine women” became a popular subject for painters of the Renaissance.) ...
The Sistine Madonna by Italian High Renaissance Painter Raphael 1513 When we were children at home, my mother who, though of very limited schooling, was an extremely well-educated and rarely cultured woman, used to play with us a game called “Artists,” something like the game of “Authors...
Black artists in many genres—painters such as Betty Blayton and Romare Bearden, writers such as Sonia Sanchez, a UMass and Amherst College professor, and a poet called the ‘mother of the Black Arts Movement,’ a person whom I lived with and worked for as an au pair to her twin sons...
of farmland and factories. The composition combines the Quattrocento style of early Renaissance painters such as Sandro Botticelli, the mechanical angularity of cubism and the bleakness of social realism. Two years prior to making the work, Knights witnessed a deadly explosion at a munitions factory ...
De Beauvoir has shown that over the course of centuries, the attributes used by artists and painters, and the depictions conjured up by authors to describe older women—and extremely elderly women in particular—have been almost exclusively negative. The spectrum of such images ranges from “...
Particularly in the second decade of the Renaissance (1980s), female characters were presented as "culture bearing black women," (Tar Baby 269) to quote Toni Morrison out of context. They were symbo- lic mothers of the African American "people" or, alternatively (in African Caribbean fiction...
Article English Women of the Early Modern Period was published on October 23, 2002 in the journal English and American Studies in German (volume 2001, issue 2002).