The docent then went into the art made by women in 18th century France, including paintings made by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, who was the official artist to Marie Antoinette. The group ...

reflecting both its art-historical importance and its extraordinary story.” Romney was one of the leading society portrait painters of 18th-century Britain and his paintings are held in a great ...

They will explore the role of women in academia, the meaning of colonial architecture today, how economics influences art production, and the limits of historical periodization ... They will also be ...

while the 18th century became the culmination of this French effervescence. Nevertheless, the study of the particularity of the models of production and distribution - workshops, Academies, ...

“That is how I first discovered the early women of science in the Italian peninsula.” As Findlen eagerly flicked the pages, she stumbled upon Cristina Roccati, an 18th-century trailblazer from ...