Among the First: Italian Women Artists as Originators with Eve Straussman-Pflanzer
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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This talk will begin with an examination of Fede Galizia's contributions to the burgeoning art of still life painting in Italy of the first half of the seventeenth century. Taking her lead, the lecture will explore the other ways that women artists innovated in early modern Italy from Artemisia Gentileschi's original and dynamic compositions to Giovanna Garzoni's whimsical world of fruit, flowers, and fauna. A world where—against all odds—hundreds of women found ways to create and compete as artists will be revealed.
An authority on Italian painting in the early modern period and an expert on early modern women artists and patrons, Eve Straussman-Pflanzer joined the National Gallery of Art in 2020 as curator and head of Italian and Spanish paintings. She was previously the head of the European art department and the Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Curator of European Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) from 2016-2020, and has held posts at Wellesley College's Davis Museum in Massachusetts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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