The first internationally celebrated woman artist?

[french frank]

Whether or no, it's an exhibition it would be good to visit. Elisabeth Vigée le Brun is celebrated at the Grand Palais - another reason to visit

They have an interesting booklet downloadable here.

[vinteuil]

... I'm sure there were "internationally celebrated woman artists" before her.

Fr'instance -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalba_Carriera

[french frank]

... I'm sure there were "internationally celebrated woman artists" before her.

Fr'instance -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalba_Carriera

Marketing, monsieur, marketing

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... I'm sure there were "internationally celebrated woman artists" before her.

Fr'instance -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalba_Carriera

Oh, I can't be doing with yer Modern Artists, I prefer the old err ... emm ... Well; the old :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi

"Marketing"? She's even had her own film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_(film)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There was a series on BBC4 last year presented by Amanda Vickery:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01y5qg3/broadcasts/2014/06

... which featured Le Brun, Carriera, Gentileschi (and of course dozens of others). Rather better on Social History than Art "appreciation", methought, but bring the work of many fine and unjustly neglected Artists to a wider public attention.

Better on both the Social History and Art analysis was Germaine Greer's The Obstacle Race from the early '70s.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0374224129?keywords=germaine&qid=1443093309&ref_=sr_1_51&s=books&sr=1-51

[vinteuil]

Oh, I can't be doing with yer Modern Artists, I prefer the old err ... emm ... Well; the old :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi

... o, you with your seventeenth century baroque artists!

What's wrong with the renaissance and the sixteenth century? -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofonisba_Anguissola

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... o, you with your seventeenth century baroque artists!
What's wrong with the renaissance and the sixteenth century? -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofonisba_Anguissola

Oh, yes! She was featured in the Vickery series - some glorious paintings.

(incidentally - your link demonstrates the vagaries of Wiki; the Anguissola Biography states that she became Lady-in-Waiting and Painting Tutor to Elizabeth of Valois in 1569 - and gives a link to the Wiki entry on Elizabeth - which tells us that she died in 1568.)

[Bryn]

Oh, yes! She was featured in the Vickery series - some glorious paintings.

(incidentally - your link demonstrates the vagaries of Wiki; the Anguissola Biography states that she became Lady-in-Waiting and Painting Tutor to Elizabeth of Valois in 1569 - and gives a link to the Wiki entry on Elizabeth - which tells us that she died in 1568.)

I don't see a problem with that. After all, were not P.D.Q.Bach's dates 1807-1742?

[subcontrabass]

Oh, yes! She was featured in the Vickery series - some glorious paintings.

(incidentally - your link demonstrates the vagaries of Wiki; the Anguissola Biography states that she became Lady-in-Waiting and Painting Tutor to Elizabeth of Valois in 1569 - and gives a link to the Wiki entry on Elizabeth - which tells us that she died in 1568.)

Those two Wiki entries now seem to be consistent.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Those two Wiki entries now seem to be consistent.

Blimey! I need to sit down before all this power and influence goes to my head!