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What Legendary 19th-Century Women Really Looked Like vs. Their Idealized Paintings
As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing ...
Wall Street Journal14d
‘Bright Circle’ and ‘Margaret Fuller’: The Rise of the Transcendental Woman
But his deeply satisfying “Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism” is a tribute to a set of 19th-century women who made an art of contrarian thinking. They had strong ...
Smithsonian Magazine14d
A 19th-Century Textile Stitches a Tale of Women’s Liberation
Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a ...
Smithsonian Magazine4d
The Many Myths of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the 19th-Century Royal Whose Beauty and Tragic Death Transformed Her Into a Legend
The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...
Hyperallergic10d
The Danish Women Who Made Modernism Radical
the portrait is oddly sexier than we might expect of 19th-century middle-aged women, no matter how modern. Women Artists in Denmark 1880-1910 offers many such surprising pleasures. Featuring the ...
ArtsHub4d
Book review: The Butterfly Women, Madeleine Cleary
A serial killer is loose on the streets of 19th century Melbourne in 'The Butterfly Women' by Madeleine Cleary.