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Ilse Bing (1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. [49] Gerda Taro (1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War, becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline. [50]
The Seven Ages of Woman is a painting (1544) by the German painter Hans Baldung, called Grien, executed in oil paint on linden wood. [1] It is part of the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig, Germany.
[9] [10] It depicts a half-height woman turned toward her right at a three-quarter angle, but with her face turned toward her left. [11] The animal in her arms twists in a similar manner, resulting in considerable contrapposto with the lady, [12] a technique Leonardo explored earlier with the angel in the Virgin of the Rocks. [13]
White Buffalo Calf Woman (Lakȟótiyapi: Ptesáŋwiŋ) or White Buffalo Maiden is a sacred woman of supernatural origin, central to the Lakota religion as the primary cultural prophet. Oral traditions relate that she brought the "Seven Sacred Rites" to the Lakota people .
Venus of Hohle Fels, the earliest known Venus figurine. The Vénus impudique, which was the figurine that gave the whole category its name, was the first Palaeolithic sculptural representation of a woman to be discovered in modern times.
Cecile Richards addresses a crowd of demonstrators during a women's march for abortion rights outside the Texas state Capitol in Austin, on Oct. 2, 2021. Credit - Ilana Panich-Linsman—The New ...
The range of subjects covered by women's historians also increased substantially; in 1980 the question of women's status was the most important topic to historians of Athenian women, [3] but by 2000 scholars were also working on "gender, the body, sexuality, masculinity and other topics".
The clothing of Huldremose Woman Additional photograph Huldremose woman on display at the National Museum of Denmark. Huldremose Woman, or Huldre Fen Woman, is a female bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten, Jutland, Denmark. Analysis by Carbon 14 dating indicates that she lived during the Iron Age, sometime between 160 BCE and ...