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"The words spoken by the people in this film are taken from transcripts of a rape trial held in Rome 1612." This program reconstructs what resulted from an accusation of rape, in Michelangelo's Rome, leveled by artist Artemisia Gentileschi against Agostino Tassi. During the ensuing 7-month trial, the male-dominated art community destroyed her reputation as a woman and an artist by falsifying evidence and testimony; in the end, Tassi was imprisoned...
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Why are women artists of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque so relatively unknown today when, during their lifetimes, their artistic merits were celebrated by their foremost contemporaries? Italian Women Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque aims to provide the first survey of women professionally active as painters, engravers and sculptors in 16th and 17th century Italy, and to document the sociocultural context that contributed to shape their...
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