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Hommage to Lise Meitner at the entrance of Humboldt University, Berlin

Interesting lady: Elena Lucrecia Cornaro Piscopia

Name: Elena Lucrecia
Surname: Cornaro Piscopia
Nationality: Italian
Date of birth: 5 June 1646, in Venice

Main achievements: She is the first woman to get a  doctor of philosophy degree
Subject: Aristotle
She spoke: Latin, Greek, French, Hebrew and Arabic
Main fields of study: Mathematics, Philosophy and Theology

Studied at: Padua University (thanks to her father's good influence)

Main challenges:  Officials in the Roman Catholic Church refused to confer the title of doctor of theology (she could teach the monks aftewards!), so she had to go for philosophy instead.

Funny fact: There were so many people who wanted to attend her oral examination that it had to be held at the Cathedral instead of the University


 More reading: agnes scott - wikipedia

She was born at the Loredan palace in Venice

The Cornaro window, at the Thompson Memorial library (USA) depicts the graduation ceremony and the disciplines she mastered: Grammar, Dialectics, Music, Philosophy, Astronomy, Medicine, Geometry and Theology.

Interesting lady: Marie Laurencin

Name: Marie
Surname: Laurencin
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 31 October 1883
Occupation: painter

Main achievement: She was a successful painter during her lifetime. Salon des Indépendants, stage design, illustrated books....
She could have become a Cubist, but managed to develop her own personal artistic style even though she met Picasso, Braque, Guillaume Apollinaire...
Colour favourites: pastel tones of pink, blue, purple and grey

Exhibition :

Marie Laurencin, Musée Marmottan, Paris 

21 February-30 June 2013

Interesting lady: Madame de Staël

Mme de Staël as Corinne

painted by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Name: Anne Louise Germaine Necker

Username: Madame de Staël
Date of birth: 22 April 1766, in Paris

Occupation: writer, host of literary, political and philosophical salons , advicing politicians, travelling all over Europe
Main works: Delphine, Corinne, De l'Allemagne
Main challenge: enduring exile due to Napoleon's suspiciousness on her political views and surviving the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution
Quote from Corinne: To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent


Frederic Harrison on Madame de Staël

"In Delphine a woman, for the first time since the Revolution, reopened the romance of the heart which was in vogue in the century preceding¨"
Her works, "precede the works of Scott, Byron, Shelley, and partly of Chateaubriand, their historical importance is great in the development of modern romanticism, of the romance of the heart, the delight in nature, and in the art, antiquities, and history of Europe."

Katie Daffan on Madame de Staël

She was the first woman to make a place for herself in the literary world; she stood far ahead of any woman of her time. By her pen, which was always brilliant, though sometimes sarcastic, she pleaded for that which was true and permanent, and condemned the false and unstable. Her charm, manner, and wonderful power in conversation brought to her side many who were first admirers and later sympathizers.


Read more about her fascinating life  on The Collective Biographies of Women

Interesting lady: Vittoria Colonna

I'd  been really missing this section

Vittoria Colonna  by Sebastiano del Piombo, c 1520

Name: Vittoria Colonna

Date of birth: 1490

Title: Marchesa de Pescara

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: intellectual, poetess,  influence important figures of her time, write letters.

First published work: Rime de la Divina Vittoria Colonna Marchesa di Pescara, in 1538

Good friend: Michaelangelo Buonarrotti. They exchanged letters, she inspired him and he wrote poems to and about her. He also made a drawing of her , this one:

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more about her life

Link to Other Women's Voices

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Interesting Lady: Queen Thomyris

Name: Thomyris/Tomyris
Occupation: queen
Whose queen: the Massagetae (don't ask me)
When: 530 BC approximately
Where: Central Asia

Main achievement: Defeat and kill the Persian king Cyrus the Great in a great battle

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Images:
- 1 Andrea del Castagno (1420-1457), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
- 2 Lambert Bernardi (c 1520-c 1536) from the series Nine heroines of Antiquity
     Pallant House Gallery, Chichester



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Homage to women painters II

 ANITA MALFATTI
tropical, c 1916

ANUEMORA SHOEN
flame, 1918
poster via katie in tokyo

ANA BILINSKA

self portrait with apron and brushes, 1887

EMILY MARY OSBORN

nameless and friendless 1857

EVELYN PICKERING DE MORGAN

medea

ROMAINE BROOKS

woman with flowers

via a touch of vaudeville

TAMARA DE LEMPICKA

la dormiente

LAVINIA FONTANA

portrait of a noble woman, 1580

MINA FONDA OCHTMAN

the evening lamp, 1912

via lali, via polarbearstale

LOU ALBERT-LASARD

ingo (artist's daughter), c 1945

REMEDIOS VARO

to be reborn, 1960

TARSILA DO AMARAL

morro favela, 1924

Interesting lady: Natalia Goncharova

First name: Natalia

Surname: Goncharova

Date of birth: 4 June, 1881

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Occupation: Painter, costume designer, illustrator, writer

Style: Cubism, Futurism, Neo-Primitivism, Rayism

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Influences: Russian traditional art, embroideries, woodcarving, wood painting, ceramic design, icons,fauvism, cubism, futurism

Groups: Donkey's Tail, The Blue Rider, Russian avant-garde of early XX century

Painters

Pompeii Fresco, from the house of the surgeon


Elisabetta Sirani, self portrait





Angelica Kaufmann, self portrait





Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, self portrait





Catherina van Hemessen, self portrait




Adelaide Labille-Guiard, self portrait with two pupils



From De claris mulieribus, Marcia

Sofonisba Anguisola, self portrait

Fantin-Latour, portrait of Sarah Elisabeth Budgett

Eva Gonzales by Manet

Miss Gladys M. Holman Hunt, by William Holman Hunt

( I think she's writing, but allow me the licence, doesn't she fit nicely in here?)

Medieval lady

Mary-Denise Villers, young woman painting

Rosalba Carriera, self portrait

Gabrielle Münter by Kandinsky

Judith Leyster, self portrait

Arpad Szenes, M. Hélène

Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, self portrait

Mary-Denise Villers, atelier of a painter

Artemisia Gentileschi, self portrait as the allegory of painting

Rosalba Carriera, allegory of painting