{"product_id":"women-painters-in-rome-9788833673172","title":"Women Painters in Rome","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with the exhibition \u003cem\u003eRoma pittrice. Artiste al lavoro tra XVI e XIX secolo\u003c\/em\u003e (Rome paints. Women Artists at Work Between the 16th and 19th Centuries), at the Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi, this guide highlights to an even wider audience the presence of several women artists who were either born in Rome or made the eternal city their place of study and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStarting from the artists represented in the Capitoline collections, such as Maria Felice Tibaldi (Subleyras), Angelika Kauffmann, Laura Piranesi, Luise Seidler, and Emma Gaggiotti (Richards), the book includes other important artists who worked in the city, such as Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi, Giovanna Garzoni, and many others, sometimes lesser-known, whose oeuvre has been discovered in recent decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe initial essay presents the gradual integration of women painters into the cosmopolitan Roman art market, with their laborious achievement of full access to education and to the most prestigious art institutions of the city, and then explores the numerous pictorial genres to which they devoted themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part of the guidebook includes 56 biographies of these artists, revealing a rich and varied production that has been until recently overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ilaria Arcangeli is a PhD student at the University of Chieti with a project focusing on women artists active in Rome between the 16th and 17th centuries. As a curatorial assistant, she organised the exhibition \u003cem\u003eRoma pittrice. Artiste al lavoro tra XVI e XIX secolo\u003c\/em\u003e (Museo di Roma di Palazzo Braschi, 2024). She mainly dealt with collecting and artistic patronage between the 16th and 17th centuries, documentary photography, and ultimately the artistic production of Roman women's convents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelling Points:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThis book stems from the great success of the exhibition \u003cem\u003eRoma pittrice\u003c\/em\u003e currently running until May 2025 at the Museum of Rome (ed. by Ilaria Miarelli Mariani and Raffaella Morselli).\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIn recent years, there have been numerous studies, exhibitions, and publications dedicated to these themes, arousing great interest in the public.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe book, with its agile format, consists of an introduction on the insertion of women artists into Roman society and the artistic world, 56 bibliographies of women artists (most of them little known to date), with important new archival and bibliographical information.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIncludes colour images of their most representative works.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTwo maps in the flaps showing both the places where the women painters lived and worked and the sites where their works can currently be seen.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing 65 colour illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46948891721964,"sku":"9788833673172","price":80.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6013653485333.jpg?v=1762293615","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/women-painters-in-rome-9788833673172","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}