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Great Women Masters of Art is a 2003 reference work assembled and edited by the art historian Jordi Vigué, on women painters through the ages. The preface of the book declares its motivation to fill the "lagoons of oblivion and contradicting opinions" regarding women's art.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
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 ...
The 17th-century drawing is attributed to the Flemish engraver and draftsman Willem Panneels (c. 1600–34). A newly acquired old master drawing at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Skip ...
The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters; Great Women Masters of Art; Het Gulden Cabinet; Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence; Lives of Flemish, German, and Dutch painters; Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects; List of artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
This is a list of women artists who were born in America or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. Included are recognized American women artists, known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...
In the 1550 and 1568 editions of the Lives Vasari insisted on drawings as documents which allowed the viewer to perceive the maniera of the great masters of painting and mentioned when he owned one or two drawings by a particular artist, such as at the end of his life of Filippo Lippi: ("Fra Filippo drew very well, as one can see in my own ...
Susanna and the Elders, 1610, earliest of her surviving works, Schönborn Collection, Pommersfelden. Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi was born in Rome on 8 July 1593, although her birth certificate from the Archivio di Stato indicates she was born in 1590.