Room 90
Women Painters of the Baroque
1590–1640, Italy, Flanders, the Netherlands and France, Baroque
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries women were rarely allowed to train at academies – and still they made their mark. Lavinia Fontana ran a sought-after portrait workshop in Bologna, Clara Peeters painted still lifes in Antwerp in whose goblets her own face is reflected, and Judith Leyster was admitted to the Haarlem painters’ guild as a master in 1633. Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman in the Florentine academy of art, Louise Moillon one of the finest still-life painters in France.