“More perfect and excellent than men”: The Women Artists of Bologna
Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art, 2021
Early modern Bologna was exceptional for its many talented women artists. They painted altarpieces, nudes, mythologies, allegories, portraits, and self-portraits, creating sculptures, drawings, prints, embroidery, and paintings. In this video, Babette Bohn of Texas Christian University, explores this history and challenges some common assumptions about women artists.
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