Join us tomorrow for MEMS' Lunch and Learn!

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:46:30 -0500

Sure, she can play the virginal, but can she paint? That was a question of Giorgio Vasari, whose seminal art history marveled at the first Italian women to become professional artists. Dr. James Magruder will look at how the first cohort of Italian female artists depicted themselves and some of the women around them, first as gentlewomen and increasingly as intellectuals. Where Vasari positioned them as marvels of Nature, they depicted Nature to prove their full humanity, as well as full equality with their fathers, teachers, and husbands. Please join us: 12/9/20 at 12:15 on Webex! Join Webex meeting ID: 1206631943 Password: GCwvwdr3(US) +1 202-860-2110 (toll) Access code: 120 663 194 3 1206631943@umbc.webex.com