Women's Legacies in Natural Studies, Health, and Liberal Arts

This volume is the proceeding of "Women’s Legacies in Natural Studies, Health, and Liberal Arts" the second edition of AIWAC, held in Rome in 2022.

The past decade has seen a considerable amount of research centered on the legacy of women as patrons of the arts, artists, writers, philosophers. The book focuses on the correlation between women and naturalism from ancient times to contemporaneity, and explores the topic more thoroughly in the context of Natural Studies, seen as a subject of investigation in multiple disciplines.

In presenting these essays, this work continues the mission of AIWAC: to build an interdisciplinary and international community dedicated to rewriting cultural history in ways that fully acknowledge the significant role of women. The work begun here points toward future research, future dialogues, and future conferences in which the legacies of women in the arts will continue to be made visible, valued, and celebrated.

Introduction
Consuelo Lollobrigida

The ‘lux vivens’ and Hildegard’s New Senses
Tools for Knowledge of God and Nature
Teodoro De Giorgio
Why Have There Been So Many Women Pioneers in Still-Life?
Patricia Simons
A Gendered Nature
Women and Naturalism in Early Modern Bologna
Patricia Rocco
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun e la malattia dell’artista
Stefania Biancani
Women-Founders of Prague Loreto in the Context of the Iconographic Motif of the Miraculous Nativity According to St Bridget of Sweden
Marie Vymazalová
Elizabeth Gould, ‘The Queen of All Naturalists’
Leah Tharpe
L’opera di una vita
Il giardino di carta di Mary Delany
Alessia Muroni Ramus
‘Uccellami e fiorami’ for History and Poetry in Grand Ducal Florence
The Naturalistic Drawings of Suor Maria Benigna Cavalcanti (Convent of Le Murate) and Suor Caterina Angelica della Vacchia (Convent of Santa Chiara)
Loretta Vandi
Household Manuals and the Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse
The Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Home as Site of Knowledge Production
Michelle Moseley-Christian
Neroli, the Essence of Princesse des Ursins’ Legacy
The Blooming of a Legend
Alba Carballeira
‘She Ruled Our King’
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Weaning Madonna and Marian Reinvention in Counter-Reformation Rome
Margaret M. Barnes
Today’s Madonnas
The Image of Motherhood as Depicted by Hungarian Female Painters in Interwar Art
Anna Kopócsy
Female Bodies in Motion from Hysterical Dancing to Art Performance
Laura D’Angelo and Luana Testa
Francesca Alinovi: Critique as Performance
A Source for Art History
Francesca Valentini
Unseen Modernities
Re-imagining the Visionary ‘Real’ in the Art of Marianne Stokes, 1880s–1910s
Juliet Simpson
Sneaky Peeks
Women in the Bedroom
Lara Demori
A Marriage between Nature and Architecture
Feminine Biophilic
Francesca Riccardo
POSTFACE: Some Thoughts on Women, Art, Nature, Science
Female Pioneers in Still Life, Botanical Painting, and Scientific Illustration
Adelina Modesti

List of illustrations