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Article: Women and Art
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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WOMEN AND ART
WOMEN AND ART.
Although women certainly produced art in previous centuries, it is in the sixteenth century that we first find strong biographical information on female artists. In the second edition of his
Lives of the Artists
(1568), Giorgio Vasari menti
ons a number of Flemish and Italian female artists, including the Bolognese sculptor Properzia De' Rossi (c. 1490
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c. 1530), Sister Plautilla (1523
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1588; prioress of the Florentine convent of Santa Caterina da Siena), a Madonna Lucrezia, wife of Count Clemente Pietra, and Sofonisba Anguissola (1527
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1625). Nonetheless, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries also witnessed a progressive exclusion of ...