HIST 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Marietta Robusti, Bondorf, Tintoretto
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Lecture 25 - women and art part 2. There were great women artists but we don"t hear about them. Men thought that women were not capable of producing works of art. This is why they weren"t trained - men thought their minds with dull. Many works by women artists were attributed to other people. Some women eventually did become artists and by the. 17th century some women were becoming so skillful they were regarded as equal to men and proved prejudices against female artists were misplaced. Better known are miniaturists such as sibylla von bondorf. She was actually a nun in germany. She produced a lot of manuscripts in a style that became popular. The renaissance raised the status of art and the artist. There were specific areas where art was more lucrative because people weren"t willing to pay for all kinds of works. It was possible to create small works such as portraits and devotional works.
