Fertility Figure
Woman of Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf). Limestone. ca. 28,000–25,000 BCE. Willendorf, Austria. Paleolithic Europe.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Fertility Figure | Woman of Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf). Limestone. ca. 28,000–25,000 BCE. Willendorf, Austria. Paleolithic Europe. |
Fertility Figure  | Artemis of Ephesus. Original statue probably made of wood and lost in the 4th c. fire. Ancient Greek. Ephesus, Turkey. |
Fertility Figure  | Kichijjoten, painting, Nara or Heian Period, c. 8th Century, designated Japanese National Treasure. Treasure of Yakushi-ji, Temple, Japan. |
Goddess Figure  | Statuette of Isis and Horus. Faience, c. 330 BCE. Ptolemaic Period, Egypt. |
Goddess Figure  | Venus de' Medici. Hellenistic marble sculpture, 1st century BCE. |
Goddess Figure  | Shiva, Uma (Parvati) and Their Son Skanda (or Somaskandamurti). 11th century. Bronze. Bronze. Chola Period, South India. |
Goddess Figure  | Jan van Eyck, "Virgin in the Church". Oil on panel. 1430. Renaissance Flanders. |
Goddess Figure  | Guro artist, Face mask with Mami Wata, wood, paint, mid-twenty century, Cote de'Ivoire. |
Wife and Mother Figures  | The Bayeux Tapestry. c. 1086. Medieval northern France (Normandy). |
Wife and Mother Figure  | Domenico Ghirlandaio. Giovanna Tornabuoni neé Albizzi. c. 1488. Renaissance Italy. |
Mother Figure  | Miguel González. Virgin of Guadalupe. c. 1698. Colonial Mexico. (LACMA collection) |
Saint and Nun Figure  | Hildegard of Bingen. Scivias. 1142-52. Medieval Germany. |
Saint and Nun Figure  | St. Marcia painting a self-portrait from Boccaccio’s De Claris Mulieribus. 15th century. Late Medieval France. |
Saint and Nun Figure  | Christine de Pizan in her Study. Early fifteenth century. Late Medieval France. |
Troublemakers  | Lucas Cranach the Elder. Salome. 1530. Renaissance Germany. |
Troublemakers  | Bugiardini. Adam and Eve. c. 1520. Renaissance Italy. |
The Nude  | Sebastiano del Piombo. Martyrdom of Saint Agatha. 1520. Renaissance Italy. |
The Nude  | Lorenzo Lotto. Venus and Cupid. c. 1520. Renaissance Italy. |
The Nude  | Titian. Sacred and Profane Love. 1514. Renaissance Italy. |
Courtesan and Prostitute  | Titian. Penitent Magdalene. c. 1531. Renaissance Italy. |
Courtesan and Prostitute  | Titian, Venus of Urbino. c. 1534. Renaissance Italy. |
Men and Careers  | Giovanni Moroni. Portrait of a Man (The Tailor). c. 1570. |
Renaissance Sculptor  | Properzia de’Rossi. Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife. c. 1520. Renaissance Italy. |
Renaissance Sculptor  | Diana Scultori. Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery. 1575. Late Renaissance Italy. |
Renaissance Painter  | Marietta Robusti. Portrait of Old Man with Boy. c. 1585. Late Renaissance Italy. |
Renaissance Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola  | Sofonisba Anguissola. Boy Bitten by a Crayfish. Before 1559. Late Renaissance Italy. |
Renaissance Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola  | Sofonisba Anguissola. Bernardino Campi painting Sofonisba Anguissola. Late 1550s. Late Renaissance Italy. |
Renaissance Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola  | Sofonisba Anguissola. Three Sisters playing Chess. 1555. Late Renaissance Italy. |
Renaissance Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola  | Sofonisba Anguissola. Self-Portrait. 1561. Late Renaissance Italy |
Renaissance Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola  | Sofonisba Anguissola. Portrait of Queen Anne of Austria. c. 1570. Late Renaissance Italy/Spain. |
Renaissance Artist: Lavinia Fontana  | Lavinia Fontana. Self-Portrait at the Spinet. 1577. Late Renaissance Italy |
Renaissance Artist: Lavinia Fontana  | Lavinia Fontana. Consecration to the Virgin. 1599. Baroque Italy. |
Renaissance Patron  | George Gower (formerly attributed). The Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. c. 1588. Renaissance England. |
Renaissance Patron  | Cristoforo Romano. Portrait Medal of Isabella d’Este. c. 1495. Renaissance Italy. |
Female Artist vs. Male Artist  | Artemisia Gentileschi. Susanna and the Elders. 1610. Baroque Italy. |
Female Artist vs. Male Artist  | Tintoretto. Susanna and the Elders. 1555-56. Late Renaissance Italy. |
Baroque Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi  | Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith decapitating Holofernes. c. 1620. Baroque Italy. |
Baroque Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi  | Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. 1630s. Baroque Italy |
Baroque Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi  | Orazio Gentileschi. Judith with Her Maidservant. c. 1610-11. Baroque Italy. |
Baroque Artist: Elisabetta Sirani  | Elisabetta Sirani. Portia wounding her Thigh. 1664. Baroque Italy. |
Baroque Artist: Elisabetta Sirani  | Elisabetta Sirani. Portrait of Anna Maria Ranuzzi as Charity. 1665. Baroque Italy. |
Dutch Baroque and Genre Scenes  | Judith Leyster. The Happy Couple. 1630. Dutch Golden Age/Baroque. |
Dutch Baroque and Genre Scenes  | Judith Leyster. The Proposition. 1631. Dutch Golden Age/Baroque. |
Dutch Baroque and Genre Scene  | Vermeer. The Lacemaker. c. 1665. Dutch Golden Age/Baroque. |
Nature Studies  | Clara Peeters. Still-Life. 1611. Flemish/Dutch Baroque. |
Nature Studies  | Maria Sibylla Merian. Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. 1705. Early modern Netherlands/scientific illustrations. |
Master of Pastel and Portraiture  | Rosalba Carriera. Antoine Watteau. 1721. Rococo. |
Royal Academy, London  | Johann Zoffany. The Academicians of the Royal Academy. 1771-72. Neoclassicism. |
Royal Academy, London  | Angelica Kauffman. Zeuxis Selecting Models for His Picture of Helen of Troy. c. 1764. Neoclassicism. |
Royal Academy, London  | Angelica Kauffman. Design (for the ceiling of the central hall of the Royal Academy), London. 1778. Neoclassicism. |
Academy of Fine Arts, Paris  | Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun. Portrait of Marie Antoinette with Her Children. 1787. Neoclassicism. |
Academy of Fine Arts, Paris  | Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun. Portrait of the Artist with her daughter. 1789. Neoclassicism. |
Academy of Fine Arts, Paris  | Jacques-Louis David. The Oath of Horatii. 1785. Neoclassicism. |
Academy of Fine Arts, Paris  | Marie-Denise Villers. Young Woman Drawing. 1801. Neoclassicism. |
An Artist of Great Success: Rosa Bonheur and Animal Paintings  | Rosa Bonheur. The Horse Fair. 1855. Realism. |
Women Artists in England -- Business, Academy, War  | Emily Mary Osborn. Nameless and Friendless. 1857. England/Genre paintings. |
Women Artists in England -- Business, Academy, War  | Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler). The Roll Call (or Calling the Roll after an Engagement, Crimea). 1874. Realism/England |
Women Artists in England -- Business, Academy, War  | Anna Lea Merritt. Love Locked Out. 1890. Pre-Raphaelite/England |
Art and Abolition -- New Materials, New Voices  | Needlework with abolitionist slogan. c. 1830-1850. |
Art and Abolition -- New Materials, New Voices  | Harriet Powers. Pictorial Quilt (Bible Quilt), c. 1886. |
Great Sculptors  | Harriet Hosmer. Zenobia in Chains. 1859. Neoclassicism. |
Great Sculptors  | Edmonia Lewis. Forever Free. 1867. Neoclassicism. |
Art Lessons for Women  | Alice Barber Stephens. The Female Life Class. 1879. |
Women and Impressionism in France  | Mary Cassatt. Woman in Black at the Opera. 1878. |
Women and Impressionism in France  | Mary Cassatt. Reading “Le Figaro.” 1878. |
Women and Impressionism in France  | Berthe Morisot. Mother and Sister of the Artist. 1870. |
Women and Impressionism in France  | Berthe Morisot. Eugène Manet and his daughter at Bougival. 1881. |
The New Woman  | Alice Barber Stephens. The Woman in Business. 1897. |