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Period: 1400 to
Week 2- The Renaissance
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Period: 1476 to 1492
Week 1- Middle Ages
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1478
Ginevra de' Benci
The artist of this picture Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452. By 1472 he was an accredited painter and a member of Compagnia Di San Luca, a Professional artist. The above picture depicts the 16-year-old Ginevra de’ Benci. She was a well-educated conversationalist from a wealthy family and displayed dignity and modesty (National gallery of art, 2022). -
1485
Portrait of a Young Woman (Simonetta Vespucci)
Sandro Botticelli, the painter of this picture, had a prolific career as a contemporary renaissance Florentine painter in the middle ages. Botticelli represents womanhood and beauty by displaying young Florentine women in the view through the images that tell the story. The painting of the young woman depicts the perfect artistic work of the middle ages. The woman pictured in this image is Simonetta Vespucci, considered the most beautiful woman in the city (Khan academy, 2022). -
1549
Portrait Miniature of Elizabeth I
Levina Teerlinc's miniature portraits were favorites of the English court in the time of the children of Henry VIII. This Flemish-born artist was more successful in her time than Hans Holbein or Nicholas Hilliard, but no works that can be attributed to her with certainty survive. -
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Week 3- The 17th Century
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Clara Peters’ Still-Life
Clara Peters’ Still-Life 1611 paintings were produced when the world faced controversial religious beliefs. As such, painting was meant to symbolize scenic life based on the random placement of the objects. The flower shows how short life can be and the connections of still life to the early scientific illustrations (Frayer, 2016). Generally, the paintings demonstrate the futility of life and the corresponding limitations of earthly existence. -
The Carousing Couple
Judith Leyster was another great painter who had her own workshop and students. Most of her paintings were produced before her marriage to Jan Miensel Molenaer, who was also among the most excellent painters.The Carousing Couple has a lesson to modern society regarding women's fear, emotional expressions, and socialization. The painting gives society a reason to appreciate the female gender because, perhaps, they are the source of happiness and success in every man's life. -
Portia Wounding Her Thigh
Elizabeth Sirani’s painting appeared when women faced injustices in various social domains and cultural backgrounds. Hence, the picture was meant to prove a woman’s ability to withstand physical pain and how she could suffer in silence and still choose to keep it a secret from her purported husband (Bologna on Foot, 2020). The Portal in the painting signifies the strength of a woman. The various artistic paintings were meant to communicate the hardships women were undergoing. -
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Week 4- The 18th Century
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Floral Still Life
Though captured in full bloom, the flowers will soon wilt and brown, reminding us that beauty fades and all living things must die. The artwork creates an opportunity to examine beyond surface meaning and engage in critical reflection. -
Peace Bringing Back Abundance
One of Vigee Le Brun’s important paintings is Peace Bringing Back Abundance of 1780, where she depicted a quiet moment between two female characters that represented peace and abundance. Conversely, the dark attire, brunette hair, masculinity, and crown of laurels of the woman on the right, representing peace, align with Neoclassicism style. The semi-nude portrait of the female on the left shows that women were valued for their beauty during this time. -
Angelica Kauffman, Self-Portrait
One of Angelica Kauffman's famous artworks is Self-Portrait of 1787, where she portrays herself ready with a portfolio and crayon. The pose in this painting belonged to the lady amateurs in England when a barrier existed between female professional and amateur artists. Kauffman did this piece because she chose to identify with the amateur artists despite her professional background and aimed at popularizing her work in different ways. -
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Week 5- The 19th Century
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Woman with a Pearl Necklace
The piece is an impressionist painting that shows a modern woman dressed in a pink gown, an aspect of modernity (Bynum, 2019). In the 19th Century, women were never empowered since the world was highly patriarchal. The image communicates about women's nudity, appreciating that women are free in society to express their desires. Therefore, one can understand that in this specific culture, women were empowered, not dominated like in other cultures. -
The Wet Nurse Angele Feeding Julie Manet
This is one of the most prominent paintings or artwork by Berthe Morisot, using oil and canvas. Like an impressionist artwork, this painting represents the themes of a woman worker. The image communicates that a woman has a strong social and emotional connection with child-rearing and parenting, as seen in this artistic expression. It also shows that culturally, society has been structured on the division of labor where women take child-rearing as their most significant role. -
L'attente de Christ (Waiting on Christ)
Asta's most popular portrait is the n L'attente de Christ painted in 1881, which depicts a group of people, ill, dying, blind despairing awaiting the arrival of Christ. Asta Norregaard proved that religious genres could also suit women's temperament, resulting in speculation from the city's leading conservative critic. The striking aspect of the portrait is Astra's ability to capture images outside the door while still maintaining the light through the door. -
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Week 8- Late 20th Century/21st Century
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Week 6-7 The 20th Century (Europe/America)
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Evening sun in the artist's studio at Markvej
In the art piece, Anna Anchor propels her theme of reality and naturalism by depicting the evening sun. She carefully captures the orange rays of the sun that are filled with spaces which depict the effect of shadows as the rays fall on objects outside the window. It is important to note her ability to reveal the rays through the window without having to paint the window itself. Additionally, she manages to depict the corner using a faint line. -
The Bay
In Helen Frankenthaler's "The Bay", we can almost watch as the blues meld into one another during this early stage giving the image its blurred and smooth finish. With many Abstract Expressionist paintings of the 1950s and 60s, it's important not to get too caught up with possible social and historical contexts and biography but to focus on the individual components of the work itself because those details can tell us so much about the painting. -
Sunflowers VI
Joan Mitchell's work Sunflowers VI (1969) was one of the paintings that successfully communicates the essence of the subject: dying beauty. It feels like a battle, and yet it's just still so elegant and gorgeous. It makes a vast and deep impression on its viewers. Sunflower is more diminutive about a flower and more about feelings attached to remembrance manifesting as pure color and, more importantly, surface manipulation. -
The Interior Scroll
Carolee Schneemann stripped down and started painting her own body reading aloud from a piece of paper she had pulled from her vagina. The text's inspiration was about how women could access emotion and intuition, not specific attributes like logic and reason, which were distinctively masculine. Schneemann demonstrated that only a woman could accurately speak for the feminine experience without trying to hide her true feminine nature or begging for permission to embrace her female sexuality -
El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project
Mónica Mayer handed out pink papers to women from all lifestyles and ethnicities in Mexico City. "What I most despise about my city as a woman is..." was the subject of each card. Cardholders then hung the women's comments (including issues like sexual harassment, feeling uncomfortable, and different sorts of abuse) Using art, a clothesline, a place where women go and gossip, symbolized using the art museum as a public space where women's daily experiences can be discussed and made known to all