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  2. Women artists - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Category:Paintings of women - Wikipedia

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    The Bar (painting) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère; The Bathers (Renoir) Bathers with a Turtle; The Bathers (Cézanne) Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door; The Beauty; Beijing 2008 (painting) The Beloved (Rossetti) Berlin Street Scene; Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait; Bharat Mata (painting) The Black Brunswicker; Black Woman with Child

  4. Helen of Troy (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Helen of Troy is an 1898 painting by the English artist Evelyn De Morgan depicting Helen of Troy; it was commissioned by William Imrie of Liverpool. [1]Compositionally, the painting is similar to De Morgan's Flora and Cassandra: [2] Helen is standing upright and tall, in a peaceful posture that reminds to Boticcelli's representations of Greek and Roman goddesses (such as Athena or Venus) that ...

  5. The Birth of Venus - Wikipedia

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    They are among the most famous paintings in the world, and icons of Italian Renaissance painting; of the two, the Birth is better known than the Primavera. [1] As depictions of subjects from classical mythology on a very large scale they were virtually unprecedented in Western art since classical antiquity , as was the size and prominence of a ...

  6. Artemisia Gentileschi - Wikipedia

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    Artemisia, and more specifically her painting Judith Beheading Holofernes, are referred to in Wendy Wasserstein's play The Heidi Chronicles (1988), in which the main character, Heidi, lectures about it as part of her art history course on female painters. At the end of the play, Heidi adopts a daughter she names Judy, which is at least a ...

  7. Lists of women artists - Wikipedia

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    Women in the art history field; Women Painting Women!Women Art Revolution This page was last edited on 27 August 2024, at 18:58 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

  8. Lucretia (Rembrandt, 1666) - Wikipedia

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    Lucretia is a 1666 history painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. It is an oil painting on canvas that depicts a myth about a woman named Lucretia who lived during the ancient Roman eras. She committed suicide to defend her honor after being raped by an Etruscan king's son.

  9. Two Women with a Candle - Wikipedia

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    Two Women with a Candle or Old Woman and Young Woman with a Candle is a 1616-1617 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Its chiaroscuro shows strong influence from Caravaggio , whose work Rubens had seen during a stay in Rome.

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