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The Obama Portraits
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Sofonisba Anguissola (Illuminating Women Artists)
Praise for Sofonisba Anguissola (Illuminating Women Artists)
“Drawing upon a wealth of archival sources, Gamberini’s book offers fresh insights into Anguissola’s personal and professional life, including the complex web of familial and patronage networks that she navigated between Italy and Spain.”
—Tanja L. Jones, Associate Professor, The University of Alabama
“Cecilia Gamberini’s Sofonisba Anguissola is the story of an extraordinary painter’s life which unfolds between Cremona, Madrid, Paterno, Genoa and Palermo. Each stage of Sofonisba Anguissola’s career marks a change in her work, from formidable beginnings to official portraits of the Spanish court, and finally to her devotional paintings in her last few years spent between Liguria and Sicily. It is a story which reinvigorates and deepens our understanding of an artist who was also a pioneer of female art.”
—Angela Ghirardi, Art Historian
“Both entertaining and rigorous, Cecilia Gamberini’s monograph offers us the artistic and personal history of one of the most important women artists of the modern era. Helped by the social and familial environments in which she grew up, Anguissola’s skills gave her mythical status. Taking in the quality and depth
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Ida B. Wells, Emmeline Pankhurst, Indira Gandhi, and Ada Lovelace, all share two significant traits. These women accomplished feats that shaped history and yet are still largely unrecognized.
This unfortunate reality supports Simone de Beauvoir’s critique in her 1949 book The Second Sex: “representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.” Beauvoir, an eminent French feminist writer, philosopher, and activist of the 20th century, exposes the inseparable interconnectedness of gender power dynamics and the issue of cultural amnesia. Historical documentation reflects the interest and victories of its authors—heterosexual white men. Consequently, female achievements, relevance, and grandeur are often attributed to their male counterparts. This existing gender-related bias discriminates against women and creates an ever-growing falsified record. Unsurprisingly, the history publicized resembles a simple and monomorphic “roll call of accomplished men,” as put by the journalist Zing Tsjeng.
Historic transcripts still are a “bastion of male supremacy,” and thus, it is predictable, that every domain of socio-cultural life has a significant number of forgotten female figures.