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She inspired generations of artists and writers, among them Lauro Quirini and Ludovico Foscarini , and contributed to a centuries-long debate in Europe on gender and the nature of women. [ 2 ] Nogarola is best known for her 1451 work De pari aut impari Evae atque Adae peccato (trans. Dialogue on the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve).
Veronica Franco was born to a family in the Cittadino class. [1] She developed her position in Renaissance Venetian society as a cortigiana onesta (Honest Courtesan), who were intellectual sex workers who derived their position in society from refinement and cultural prowess.
Properzia de' Rossi was born in Bologna; she was the daughter of Giovanni Martino Rossi da Modena, a notary. [2] Unusually for early modern female artists, she was not the daughter of an artist.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Notable women associated with the Renaissance era (circa 1450-1600). Subcategories. This category has ...
Women, Art and Society, London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. Cole, Michael Wayne. Sofonisba’s Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Garrard, Mary D. "Here's Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist." Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994), 556-662. https://www.jstor.org ...
She challenged traditional periodization, saying that women's historical experience was different to that of men's, and that while men's options may have expanded during the Renaissance period that the opposite was true for women. Drawing on contemporary literature, Kelly argued that concepts of courtly love led to an increased emphasis on ...
Portrait of Lady Mary Wroth. Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney; 18 October 1587 [1] – 1651/3) was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance.A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation.
The woman question was raised in many different social areas. For example, in the second half of the 19th century, in the context of religion, extensive discussion within the United States took place on the participation of women in church. In the Methodist Episcopal Church, the woman question was the most pressing issue in the 1896 conference ...