Artemisia Gentileschi and her heroic women in the Baroque.
This work is dedicated to the seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. (Rome, July 8, 1593 - Naples, circa 1654)
Her work narrates the stories of women struggling against the prejudices of their time.
It is an exhibition of paintings and also an exhibition of women's personalities.
Intelligent, brave, heroic, mothers. Pictures starred by women, in which action and courage are revealed as a general rule.
It means that the women portrayed in the canvases: strong and suffering, heroines, victims, warriors, female characters from both the Bible and mythology from a new perspective, that of a woman.
In second floor of City Hall "Antiquity Spain"
This even will run for the next few weeks. Please come by and have a look at this wonderful and timely exhibit.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Antiquity%20VanDiemens%20Land/33/36/25
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His Royal Highness Jacon Cortes de Bexar Prince of Antiquity, Duke of Cumberland, Duque de Bexar, Duc de la Valliere, Marchese di MSB