![]() ![]() the art market: how much people will pay as an index of value in broader terms.the selection of works that populate museums and art history books.My talk could not address them all, so I chose some topics that inform how greatness was and is defined as it pertains to early modern women artists by pointing out some avenues to explore ![]() ![]() In a talk delivered at the Prado as part of a conference held January 27–28, 2020 in conjunction with the exhibition on Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana, I tried to reassess the issue of “greatness” with regard to women by applying Nochlin’s thesis to the Renaissance-Baroque period. Instead, she queried the determinants informing the definition of “greatness,” concluding that conditions affecting women’s lives and training-compounded by the priorities and practices of art history, art criticism, the art market, and many museums-have kept women at the margins. Nochlin admonished against arguments for including women artists who deserve to be called “great” within the existing historical and critical framework. Art and Sexual Politics: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Edited by Thomas B. ![]()
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