In Reale Palace, in Milan, you can admire more than 200 works realized by 110 female artists, who have had the talent and the courage, in different historical periods, to make a name for themselves in a field that is traditionally dominated by mail figures (from 3rd December 2007 to 9th March 2008).

The exhibition begins with Renaissance, the culminating moment for the evolution of the female artists, who started working in art studios more and more frequently right in this period. In this part of the exhibition the public has the opportunity to admire the works by the protagonists of the Italian Cinquecento: Sofonisba Anguissola from Cremona (about 1535 -1625), who is famous for her portraits, Lavinia Fontana (1552 -1614), from Bologna, who became in turn the official portrait painter of the town’s noble families and the renowned Artemisia Gentileschi, from Rome (1593 -1654), who was not allowed to attend the art school.

The exhibition goes on with the seventeenth century female artists, as Elisabetta Sirani (1638 -1665), a young artist who was a painter’s daughter and died when she was just twenty-seven years old, and Rosalba Carriera (1675 -1757), a refined artist of the pastel tecnique.
For the nineteenth century the exhibition presents the works by some European artists, as Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), by the American Mary Cassat (1844 -1926) and by the great female sculptor Camille Claudel (1864 -1943), who had Rodin as her master and lover. She was the only master’s apprentice who was allowed to cut marble.

In this way we approach the twentieth century, with masterpieces by Elisabeth Chaplin (1890 -1982) and Vanessa Bell (1879 -1961), Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and Tamara de Lempicka (1902-1980).
This exhibition is really a special opportunity to appreciate the steady work and the big talent of the female artists throughout the ages, in fact you can admire their creativity and the perseverance that they used to become successful with their female art.

INFORMATION:
L’Arte delle Donne. Dal Rinascimento al Surrealismo
Palazzo Reale, Piazza Duomo 12 – Milan

3rd December 2007 / 9th March 2008

Opening time : Monday 14.30/19.30 – from Tuesday to Sunday 9.30/19.30
24th and 31st December closed – 25th December and 1st January open from 14.30 to 19.30

Tickets: € 9,00 full fare - € 7,00 for students, people holding a TCI card, for over 60 –
€ 6 euro (up to 18 years old) – free fare up to 3 years old, disabled with attendant).

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