The Thinking Traveller
The Thinking Traveller
Academy Travel
Italian women artists of the 16th & 17th-century
29 minutes Posted Jun 18, 2020 at 10:00 pm.
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When we talk about the Italian Old Masters we immediately think of Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto and Caravaggio. All men. But there were more women painters than you might imagine during the Italian Renaissance. Dr Kathleen Olive introduces us to some of them and explains how their work is now being revisited, restored and re-evaluated.