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Susan Louise Smith (1947 – April 5, 2021) [1] was an associate professor emeritus in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She was noted for her 1995 book The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature, an expansion of her 1978 doctoral dissertation on the Power of Women topos.
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe , and much of Northern , Southern and Central Europe , never quite effacing more classical styles in Italy.
The unusually large size of the piece allows a wide range of the repertoire of popular scenes from different literary sources in French Gothic art to be shown, which display a variety of medieval attitudes to love and the role of women: "Themes such as lust and chastity, folly and wisdom are juxtaposed in a series of non-connected scenes". [5]
Aug. 11—Weave the skull-like imagery of the Day of the Dead with goth's dark spell, and you get the artwork of Alex Chavez. On view at Santa Fe's Keep Contemporary through Aug. 26, the Taos ...
Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530 15th-century aquamanile with Phyllis riding Aristotle [1] Jacopo Amigoni, Jael and Sisera, 1739. The "Power of Women" (German: Weibermacht) is a medieval and Renaissance artistic and literary topos, showing "heroic or wise men dominated by women", presenting "an admonitory and often humorous inversion of the male-dominated ...
International Gothic (or Late Gothic) art is a style of figurative art datable between about 1370 and, in Italy, the first half of the 15th century. As the name emphasizes, this stylistic phase had an international scope, with common features as well as many local variables.
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
Gothic queens consort (2 C) O. Ostrogothic women (1 C, 4 P) V. Visigothic women (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Gothic women" The following 4 pages are in this category ...