Woman artist in 17th century Italy
https://www.tumblr.com/reblog/117687903337/vQkXQiY8
I just chanced upon this fascinating presentation on a guy's tumblr. As he writes, "So, I just added an...information dump on a post* when no one asked me, but there we go."
But his info is completely new to me: if you had asked me if there were any important women artists in late-Renaissance Italy, I'd probably have said "nope -- are you kidding?"
OMG I've seen Gentileschi's work (the Holofernes thing, gruesome as it is, is inescapable in Art Appreciation 101), but didn't have a clue the painter was a woman! And what she had to put up with: the rape and subsequent trial, yadda yadda! And then being denigrated/ignored over the centuries by mysogenists and other ignorant folk! (Including me, I admit!)
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* But I, too, do a lot of commenting on Tumblr; it's a big part of reblogging (even if you don't know WHO will come along and actually read what you scribbled).
I just chanced upon this fascinating presentation on a guy's tumblr. As he writes, "So, I just added an...information dump on a post* when no one asked me, but there we go."
But his info is completely new to me: if you had asked me if there were any important women artists in late-Renaissance Italy, I'd probably have said "nope -- are you kidding?"
OMG I've seen Gentileschi's work (the Holofernes thing, gruesome as it is, is inescapable in Art Appreciation 101), but didn't have a clue the painter was a woman! And what she had to put up with: the rape and subsequent trial, yadda yadda! And then being denigrated/ignored over the centuries by mysogenists and other ignorant folk! (Including me, I admit!)
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* But I, too, do a lot of commenting on Tumblr; it's a big part of reblogging (even if you don't know WHO will come along and actually read what you scribbled).