Women Painters

Two examples by Dutch Baroque artist Judith Leyster break from the "woman as Eve" paradigm and place the lieklihood of vice on both sexes.

Marry Cassatt's beating the odds of 19th-century patriarchy and offering visual critiques of it in her work.

The restrictions of the lives of late nineteenth-century French women and how Berthe Morisot circumvented them.

Artemisia Gentileschi is known for her depiction of the active heroine, as opposed to the passive heroines depicted by her male counterparts. In an age before widespread "girl power," what could have been the impetus behind this break from tradition?

An overview of the contributions that Linda Nochlin has made to art historical scholarship.

Review of the Suite University course "The Wicked Wife"

Discussion of how Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's Portrait of Madame Adélaïde contrasts with contemporary portraits of women.

Part 2 of looking at possible reasons behind (self-)portraiture in late eighteenth-century France. Profiled in this article: Marie-Guillemine LaVille-Leroulx-Benoist and Mlle. Duchosal.

Part 1 of looking at possible reasons behind (self-)portraiture in late eighteenth-century France. Profiled in this article: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.

Art and politics are more closely interwoven than may be initially believed. This article takes a look at censorship of he visual arts and why the outcome of 2 November will affect what we will be "allowed" to view.