FORGOTTEN WOMEN ARTISTS IN ROME
The ground-breaking exhibition “Le Signore dell'Arte”, focussing on Italian women artists of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the Royal Palace of Milan in 2021, opened a door onto a hitherto unknown reality: that art had not been an exclusive prerogative of men from the Renaissance onwards, but that many women artists had also had successful careers during the same period. The Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi has now taken up the theme, offering a spectacular exhibition of the works of 56 women artists who worked in Rome between the 17th and 19th centuries.
On display are 130 works, coming from major Italian galleries and museums in various Italian cities, as well as the National Gallery of London and the Thorvaldsen Museum of Copenhagen.
For many of these artists, this is the first time that their work has received official recognition, since many of their paintings were catalogued as “artist unknown” or were attributed to their maestro or to a male family member.
A series of talks, open to the public, describing the lives and works of the artists on show are available during the exhibition period, as well as a map of Rome indicating the places connected with the life and work of many of the artists
“ROMA PITTRICE, Artiste al Lavoro tra XVI e XIX Secole” (Rome Women Artists, working between yhe XVI and the XIX centuries) runs until the 23rd March 2025 at the Museo di Roma, Palazzo Braschi.
Info: Tel. 060608 www.museodiroma.it museodiroma@comune.roma.it
