Episode 4: Bad Bitches of The Baroque

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Join Liv and Kate as they get into the bad bitches of Baroque art. From the radical liberalness of Bologna (literally just being willing to educate women...but we move) to the devastating early death of one of the greatest women artists in history, in this episode the girls try and struggle, to squeeze the history of women in the Baroque into an hour and fifteen minutes. Today's episode covers Lavinia Fontana, Sofonisba Anguissola, and Elisabetta Sirani (plus a cheeky bit of Caravaggio). 

Sources:

Borzello, F. (1998) Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated.

Borzello, F. (2000) A World of Our Own: Women as Artists Since the Renaissance. New York: Watson Guptill Publications.

Chadwick, W. (1990) Women, Art, & Society. London: Thames & Hudson

Chicago, J. Lucie-Smith, E. (1999) Women and Art: Contested Territory. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Hessel, K. (2022) The Story of Art Without Men. London: Hutchinson Heinemann.

Parker, R. and Pollock, G. (1989) Old Mistresses: Women, Art, and Ideology. London: Pandora Press

Sutherland Harris, A. (2010) Artemisia Gentileschi and Elisabetta Sirani: Rivals or Strangers? Woman’s Art Journal Vol.31 (No.1). Pp. 3-12

The Guerrilla Girls. (1998) The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion to The History of Western Art. London: Penguin Books

https://artherstory.net/elisabetta-sirani/

https://www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/elisabetta-sirani/

https://www.uffizi.it/en/news/maestra-elisabetta-sirani-virtuosa-del-pennello