HESCAH Lecture | Dr. Patricia Simons “Women Artists, Nudes and Models: Observation and Imagination in Early Modern Europe”

Women Artists, Nudes and Models: Observation and Imagination in Early Modern Europe

Dr. Patricia Simons
Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne

By exploring ways in which women artists managed to present nude figures, male and female, despite institutional barriers, this lecture takes gender analysis beyond the study of biography. The core examples are works by Lavinia Fontana (1604-13) and Angelica Kauffman (1780).