Your relationship to Women in Art needs to be considered. This is reflagged because I find it thought provoking & important. Unfortunately I could not find the series on DVD to buy or watch.
Originally posted on Jeanne de Montbaston:
Fede Galizia, ‘Judith with the Head of Holofernes’ (possible self-portrait). 1596.
I recently watched Amanda Vickery’s series, ‘The Story of Women and Art,’ which you can catch on Iplayer (and catch it soon, before it goes).
I am a pretty obvious target for this series. The name I blog under, Jeanne de Montbaston, is the name of one of the few medieval women artists about whom we know a fair amount. I’m not an Art Historian, but I’m very interested in women artists, because in medieval England (and France, and Italy …), you often find that the people illuminating books – or making tapestries and other works of art we’ve now lost – were women. I suspect that the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were actually a reasonably good time to be a woman artist. Yet, ironically, I suspect that’s true for women like Jeanne de Montbaston simply because…
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