CategoriesStyles and Movements
Women Artists
Women who made art across the centuries, often against exclusion from guilds, academies and life classes, from the Renaissance to today.
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In Johan Zoffany's group portrait The Academicians of the Royal Academy (1771–72), the members gather round a nude male model, and the two women among the founders, Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser, appear only as portraits on the wall. Barred from life classes and often from guilds and academies, most women artists before the 20th century trained in a relative's workshop or privately.
Many built major careers. Sofonisba Anguissola served at the Spanish court, Lavinia Fontana painted altarpieces in Bologna, and Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1620) shows the biblical killing unflinchingly. Judith Leyster joined the Haarlem painters' guild in 1633, and Rachel Ruysch became court painter in Düsseldorf. Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt won recognition in the 19th century, and Käthe Kollwitz, Georgia O'Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois helped shape modern art. In 1971 Linda Nochlin recast women's absence from the canon as a question about institutions.
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