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lollobarcollomanonmollo · 4 months

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women artists that you should know about!!

-Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609-1660)

During her life her works were highly recognized, but she got forgotten after her death and rediscovered in the 19th century. In her paintings could be identified the acronym "JL", asually followed by a star, she was the first woman to be inserted in the Guild of St. Luke, the guild Haarlem's artists.

-Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593-1656)

"... Si è talmente appraticata che posso osar de dire che hoggi non ci sia pare a lei, havendo fatto opere che forse i principali maestri di questa professione non arrivano al suo sapere". This is how the father Orazio talked about his nineteen year old daughter to the Medici's court in Florence.

In 1611, Artemisia got raped, and she had to Undergo a humiliating trial, just to marry so that she could "Restore one's reputation" , according to the morality of the time. Only after a few years Artemisia managed to regain her value, in Florence, in Rome, in Naples and even in England, her oldest surviving work is "Susanna and the elders".

-Elisabeth Louise Vigèe Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)

She was a potrait artists who created herself a name during the Ancien Règime, serving as the potrait painting of the Queen of France Marie Antoinette, she painted 600 portraits and 200 landscapes in the course of her life.

-Augusta Savage (Afro-American, 1892-1962)

Augusta started making figures when she was a child, which most of them were small animals made out of red clay of her hometown, she kept model claying, and during 1919, at the Palm Beach County Fair, she won $25 prize and ribbon for most original exhibit. After completing her studies, Savage worked in Manhattan steam laundries to support her family along with herself. After a violent stalking made by Joe Gould that lasted for two decades, the stalker died in 1957 after getting lobotomized. In 2004, a public high school, Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts, in Baltimore, opened.

-Marie Ellenrieder (German,1791-1863)

She was known for her portraits and religious paintings. During a two years long stay in Rome, she met some Nazarenes (group of early 19th century German romantic painters who wanted to revive spirituality in art),after becoming a student of Friedrich Overbeck and after being heavily influenced by a friend, she began painting religious image, getting heavily inspired by the Italian renaissance, more specifically by the artist Raphael. In 1829, she became a court painter to Grand Duchess Sophie of Baden.

-Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (French,1841-1893)

Morisot studied at the Louvre, where she met Edouard Manet, which became her friend and professor. During 1874 she participated at her first Impressionist exhibition, and in 1892 sets up her own solo exhibition.

-Edmonia Lewis or also called "wildfire" (mixed African-American and Native American 1844-1907)

Edmonia was born in Upstate New York but she worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. She was the first ever African American and Native American sculptor to achieve national and international fame, she began to gain prominence in the USA during the Civil Ware. She was the first black woman artist who has participated and has been recognized to any extent by the American artistic mainstream. She Also in on Molefi Kete Asante's list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

-Marie Gulliemine Benoist (French, 1768-1826)

Daughter of a civil servant, Marie was A pupil of Jaques-Louis David, whose she shared the revolutionary ideas with, painting innovative works that have caused whose revolutionary ideals he shared, painting innovative works that caused discussion. She opened a school for young girl artists, but the marriage with the banker Benoist and the political career Of the husband had slowly had effect on her artistic career, forcing her to stop painting. Her most famous work is Potrait of Madeline, which six years before slavery was abolished, so that painting became a simbol for women's emancipation and black people's rights.

-Lavinia Fontana (Italian, 1552-1614)

She is remembered for being the first woman artist to paint an altarpiece and for painting the first female nude by a woman (Minerva in the act of dressing), commissioned by Scipione Borghese.

-Elisabetta Sirani. (Italian, 1698-1665)

Her admirable artistic skills, that would vary from painting, drawing and engraving, permitted her, in 1660, to enter in the National Academy of S. Luca, making her work as s professor. After two years she replaced her father in his work of his Artistic workshop, turning it into an art schools for girls, becoming the first woman in Europe to have a girls' school of painting, like Artemisia Gentileschi, she represent female characters as strong and proud, mainly drawn from Greek and Roman stories. (ex. Timoclea Kills The Captain of Alexander the Great, 1659).

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random-brushstrokes · 1 month

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Judith Leyster - A Young Man with a Cat (ca. 1635)

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lionofchaeronea · 1 month

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The Merry Trio (Company Playing Music and Drinking in an Interior), Judith Leyster, 1629-31

#art #art history #Judith Leyster #female artists #genre painting #genre art #Dutch Golden Age #Baroque #Baroque art #Dutch Baroque #Dutch art #17th century art #oil on canvas #private collection

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pintoras · 9 months

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Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609-1660): The Serenade (1629) (via Rijksmuseum)

#Judith Leyster #early women painters #early women artists #dutch painters #seventeenth century #musical instruments #music #clothes #women artists #women painters #art #painting #portrait #serenade

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psikonauti · 8 months

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Judith Jans Leyster (Dutch,1609-1660)

Boy with a cat, red hat and a piece of bread, c. 1630

oil on canvas

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arinewman7 · 3 months

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The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier)

Judith Leyster

oil on canvas, ca. 1629

#Judith Leyster #art #artist #painter #painting #The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier)#ca. 1629

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granstromjulius · 1 month

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Judith Leyster

#judith leyster #art #artwork #fine art #fineart #painting #art history #history of art #women in art

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thefugitivesaint · 1 year

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Judith Leyster (1609-1660), 'The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier)', 1629 ”The costume that the standing figure wears over his clothes suggests that the setting is vastenavond, the night before the beginning of Lent, when people frequently went on binges in order to prepare themselves for fasting and abstinence. This painting speculates on the consequences of such overindulgence. In their dissipated state, the gay cavalier and his companion ignore the menacing presence of the skeleton, which bears an ominous hourglass in one bony hand and a skull in the other.” Source

#judith leyster #dutch artists #dutch painters #the last drop #the gay cavalier #death #one of my favorite paintings at the PMA

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ourstaturestouchtheskies · 10 months

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Self-Portrait - Raphael // Self-Portrait with a Green Vest – Eugène Delacroix // Self-Portrait – Diego Velázquez // Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait) – Jan van Eyck // Self-Portrait - Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun // Self-Portrait - Jacques-Louis David // Self-Portrait – Peter Paul Rubens // Mont Blanc and the Glacier des Bossons Looking Down the Arve Valley – JMW Turner // Self-Portrait – Elin Danielson-Gambogi // Self-Portrait - Gwen John // Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria – Artemisia Gentileschi // Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat – Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun // Self-Portrait – Judith Leyster // Self-Portrait – Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate // Self-Portrait with Palette – Marie Bashkirtseff // La Rue des Clos Moreaux – Gwen John