| "I will show your Excellency what a woman can do"
"I will show your Excellency what a woman can do," said the 16th century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi to one of her patrons.
Almost all female artists (even those who were famous in their own times) have fallen into oblivion, but their much underrated work begins to be recognised.
An exposition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan (from the Renaissance to Surrealism), one in Washington (from Renaissance to Baroque), another (impressionists) to be held in Frankfurt,..., all focuse on women.
Here is my tribute to the great Artemisia:
"Allegoria della Pittura" (Allegory of Painting) (1638-39). |