Artemisia's studio Five centuries of women painters. From Sofonisba Anguissola to Frida Khalo

Women reclaim their place in the history of painting
To see, you have to look.
Until now, in the history of painting that we have been told, women have played a minor role: they are only muses, mere objects to be captured on canvas.
Thus, the great women who were artists in their own right are barely mentioned in a footnote, and their figures have been overshadowed by those of their male colleagues.
We have heard of Caravaggio and Monet, but even today, names like Berthe Morisot or Remedios Varo are not known to the general public.

In El taller de Artemisia, Sandra Ferrer, an author specialising in the history of women, invites us to discover the life and work of some of the best female painters of the last five centuries. We will travel with Sofonisba Anguissola, lady of Queen Isabella of Valois and author of the most famous portrait of the Prudent King. C
We will learn about the traumatic experience of Artemisia Gentileschi, who, raped and humiliated by a society that did not believe her testimony, painted daring baroque paintings from an almost feminist point of view.
We will travel through the great styles of 19th century France with Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Rosa Bonheur and Berthe Morisot, and we will immerse ourselves in the whirlwind of the avant-garde and modernity with Paula Modersohn-Becker, Maruja Mallo, Tamara Lempicka, Remedios Varo and Frida Kahlo, among other great artists.

Until now, a veil has covered the names of women painters: the time has come to lift it and tell their story.
Just as Virginia Woolf claimed a room of her own for women writers, Sandra Ferrer claims her own space for women painters in the history of art.

• Softcover
• Pages: 384
• Language: Spanish
• Author: Sandra Ferrer Valero
• Year: 2023
• MODEL: 9788418216640

Publisher: Principal de los Libros