Arte alle Donne! "Pioneer artists"

Curated by Alessandra Montalbetti

What lies behind the painful and well-known story of the painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653)? Art historians tend to look at women artists at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, such as Orsola Caccia (1596–1676), Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) and Fede Galizia (1578–1630), exclusively for their biographical vicissitudes, thus ignoring the artistic value of their work.

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