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Women and Gender in the Arts, vol. 4
Women's Legacies in Natural Studies, Health, and Liberal Arts
Proceedings of the Second Annual International Women in the Arts Conference
Consuelo Lollobrigida, Adelina Modesti (eds)
- Pages: 240 p.
- Size:178 x 254 mm
- Illustrations:8 b/w, 62 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2026
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-62107-4
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BIO
Consuelo Lollobrigida is a faculty member at the University of Arkansas Rome Program where she teachs Art History and Women in the Arts and Architecture. Her field of research and expertise in that of women artists from Renaissance to Modern.
Adelina Modesti
Summary
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Teodoro De Giorgio, The ‘lux vivens’ and Hildegard’s New Senses: Tools for Knowledge of God and Nature
Patricia Simons, Why Have There Been So Many Women Pioneers in Still-Life?
Patricia Rocco, A Gendered Nature: Women and Naturalism in Early Modern Bologna
Stefania Biancani, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun e la malattia dell’artista
Marie Vymazalová, Women-founders of Prague Loreto in the context of the iconographic motif of the miraculous Nativity according to St. Bridget of Sweden
Leah Tharpe, Elizabeth Gould, ‘The Queen of All Naturalists’
Loretta Vandi, ‘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)
Alba Carballeira, Neroli, the Essence of Princesse des Ursins’ Legacy: The Blooming of a Legend
Anna Kopócsy, Today’s Madonnas: The Image of Motherhood as Depicted by Hungarian Female Painters in Interwar Art
Juliet Simpson, Unseen Modernities: Re‑imagining the Visionary ‘Real’ in the Art of Marianne Stokes, 1880s‑1910s
Adelina Modesti, Some Thoughts on Women, Art, Nature, Science: Female Pioneers in Still Life, Botanical Painting, and Scientific Illustratio
