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Zwanger, Meryl, Women and Art in the Renaissance, in: Sister, Columbia University 1995/6. Judith Brown. Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (Women And Men In History). 1998; Letizia Panizza, Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Oxford, 2000. ISBN 1-900755-09-2. Mary Rogers, Paola Tinagli. Women in Italy, 1350—1650 ...
The Balbo Monument consists of a column that is approximately 2,000 years old dating from between 117 and 38 BC and a contemporary stone base. It was taken from an ancient port town outside of Rome by Benito Mussolini and given to the city of Chicago in 1933 to honor the trans-Atlantic flight led by Italo Balbo to the Century of Progress Worlds Fair.
Barbara Hepworth, Monolith-Empyrean, 1953, Kenwood House, London Harriet Hosmer, The Sleeping Faun (c. 1870), Cleveland Museum of Art Gabriela von Habsburg (born 1956), Europe Emmeline Halse (1853–1930), United Kingdom
Truth Unveiled by Time is a marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the foremost sculptors of the Italian Baroque.Executed between 1645 and 1652, Bernini intended to show Truth allegorically as a naked young woman being unveiled by a figure of Time above her, but the figure of Time was never executed.
The sculpture was initially met with controversy. [11] Before the Picasso sculpture, public sculptural artwork in Chicago was mainly of historical figures. [5] One derisive Chicago City Council alderman, John Hoellen, immediately proposed replacing it with a statue of Chicago Cubs baseball great Ernie Banks, [12] and publicist Algis Budrys erected a giant pickle on the proposed site for his ...
[2] Ultimately, however, the sculpture was moved to the middle of the room, where it can be seen from all angles. [9] Like Bernini's 1622 sculpture The Rape of Proserpina, Apollo and Daphne has a cartouche with a moral aphorism by Pope Urban VIII. Attributing Christian moral value to a pagan subject was a way of justifying the statue's presence ...
Floria Sigismondi (born 1965), Italian-Canadian photographer; Luisa Silei (1825–1898), landscape painter; Roberta Silva (born 1971), Trinidad and Tobago-born contemporary artist; Nerina Simi (1890–1987), painter, art teacher; Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665), Baroque painter; Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783), painter; Maria Spanò ...
An Italian poet. She is considered to have been the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman poet of any age. Gebjon: Mythical Sweden Primordial Goddess Fertility goddess Geillis Duncan: Unknown Scotland Petronilla de Meath Scottish woman accused of being a witch. Genevieve d ...