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Home Bookshelves Art Herstory: A History of Women Artists (Gustlin) 3: The Emergence of Women Artists in European Art (500 CE - 1600 CE)
What do We Really Know about Medieval Women?
Late Middle Ages - 1300-1500 The rights of women from the earliest era through the last grew significantly owing largely to two distinct factors: the increasing popularity of the Cult of the Virgin Mary and the development of the concepts of courtly love and chivalry.
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Women are often not included in such scenes at all; the standard beggar or pauper figure in medieval art was male rather than female. 28 This general absence speaks to a double "othering" of poor women in art. Medieval patrons, viewers, and artists seem to have more easily mapped the qualities of the destitute, particularly those medieval society considered to be the "deserving" poor.
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High Middle Ages - 1000-1300. Late Middle Ages - 1300-1500. There were many famous women throughout these three eras but the following twelve are among the best-known: Empress Theodora of Byzantium. Hilda of Whitby. Ende the Illuminator. Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians. Matilda of Tuscany. Hildegard of Bingen.
Medieval Women The Arnolfini Portrait and the Expectation of Constant Pregnancy
A Woman about 1435 Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle) (c.1375/1379-1444) The National Gallery, London This portrait of a woman by Robert Campin (1375/1379-1444) is the perfect example. Here the sitter wears a crisp white pinned and layered wimple of fine cloth.
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Historiography While feminist art history in general has had a number of state-of-the-field books and articles, beginning in the early 1980s, it took longer for scholars of medieval art using feminism and gender studies to produce histories of their discipline.
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Introduction: This essay surveys the evidence of women as artists in the Western and Byzantine Middle Ages in the centuries between about 600 and 1400. Dorothy Miner's Anastaise and Her Sisters (1974) laid the foundation for the current inquiry into medieval women's art. Much of the data that she - and indeed that we today - rely upon.
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In historical paintings, what do women with swords represent? Their historical taking up of arms reclaims traditionally 'masculine' acts of bravery and brutality. Such images redefine what power can look like in the hands of a woman.
A Young Woman and Her Little Boy Agnolo Bronzino. Detail Renaissance portraits, Italian
This illustration is from a French Arthurian romance created between 1275-1300. A woman with her headdress flying behind her is jousting with an unarmed knight. The woman looks angry and is using her distaff as a spear with the attached spindle flying in the air. Even her horse looks angry. British Library.
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Women in the Middle Ages in Europe occupied a number of different social roles. Women held the positions of wife, mother, peasant, artisan, and nun, as well as some important leadership roles, such as abbess or queen regnant.
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Medieval noblewomen were adept in the art of courtly love, a complex and often ambiguous code of romantic conduct. Within these courtly circles, women found subtle ways to exert influence over men, including kings and knights.
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Modern portrayals of medieval women tend toward stereotypical images of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the fields, and even women of ill repute. In fact, women's roles in the Middle Ages were varied and nuanced, and medieval depictions of womanhood were multi-faceted.
Portrait of a Renaissance Woman Holding Roses Elisabeth Sonrel Medieval Art
Women in the Middle Ages Bibliography on Gender in Byzantium Extensive bibliography of print resources created in 2004 by scholars and staff at Dumbarton Oaks in conjunction with the exhibition, Women of Byzantium, and later updated and supplemented with studies on eunuchs and masculinity. Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
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It has been evident that research on medieval women patrons would probably be more fruitful than the quest for unknown female artists or the image of woman in medieval art.
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The development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509: Society, economy and culture: for example, feudalism, religion in daily life (parishes, monasteries, abbeys), farming, trade and towns (especially the wool trade), art, architecture and literature. Back to top. Medieval women's lives were as varied as they are today.
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The armorial window of Hans Strüb of Unterwalden depicting a wild man and a wild woman Religious communities of women held an important role in the social history of Siena because remarkable percentages of the female population lived in convents (10 - 12%).