Virtuosa
Caroline Campbell: Sofonisba Anguissola, 10 September 2020
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana
edited by Leticia Ruiz Gómez.
Museo Nacional del Prado, 255 pp., £25, January,978 84 8480 537 3 Show More
edited by Leticia Ruiz Gómez.
Museo Nacional del Prado, 255 pp., £25, January,
Sofonisba’s Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work
by Michael Cole.
Princeton, 312 pp., £50, February,978 0 691 19832 3 Show More
by Michael Cole.
Princeton, 312 pp., £50, February,
“... a slightly elevated version of what critics have for centuries viewed as the ‘lady copyist’.Linda Nochlin’s essay ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971) was written partly out of a desire to deal with this issue of women artists as dilettantes. She concluded that no manipulation of the evidence or discovery of more ‘modest ... ”
