2012, ISBN: 1236555945

[EAN: 9781236555946], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missin… More...

[EAN: 9781236555946], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: .think of the conditions under which their forerunners laboured. Imagine a woman placed in the midst of these quarrels and struggles of rival Academies, with men in strong and often fierce antagonism on all sides of her; picture not only these general difficulties, but those of a more particular sort which arise from the disabilities of her sex, her subordinate state; think of the drawbacks--the prejudices, the convenances to be considered, and then the embarrassing promiscuity of life in studio and school, particularly as regards the study from the living model--and one can realise how brave, how energetic, or how ambitious must be the woman who would win the title of Artist. It is clear that the Royal Academy s liberal measure in opening its doors to women of talent was an event of some importance, from the moral point of view at any rate. It was the public recognition of woman s capacity in matters of art, the official consecration of merit which might come to light; also it afforded a goal to strive for--a goal hard to reach and Women Painters of the World very remote, doubtless, but still a goal possible of attainment to the most courageous and the most hopeful among women. The real, as distinct from the moral, advantages were, however, rather limited. From 1663, the date which marks the admission of the first woman artist, to 1783, when the last was admitted--that is to say during a period of eighty years--exactly fifteen women painters were elected, and among them were three foreigners. In 1770, indeed, on the nomination of Mile. Giroust, wife of Roslin, the painter, it was decided that, as there were already in the company two other women previously elected, there must not be more than four women in all within the Academy. This measure of.<

ISBN: 9781236555946

Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day Walter Shaw Sparrow, Books, Art and Architecture, Women painters of the world,… More...

Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day Walter Shaw Sparrow, Books, Art and Architecture, Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day Books>Art and Architecture, General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 9781236555946

Trade paperback, Ships worldwide with delivery confirmation., New., Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Contains: Illustrations, black & white., Miami FL, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com]