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Artists who changed the canon
Famous Women Artists
Discover women whose innovations transformed portraiture, history painting, Impressionism, abstraction, photography and modern visual culture.
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Baroque, Caravaggism
Artemisia Gentileschi
July 8, 1593 – Rome, Papal States–c. 1653–1656 – Naples, Italy
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Italian Renaissance (Late Renaissance / Mannerist tendencies)
Sofonisba Anguissola
c. 1532 – Cremona, Duchy of Milan–November 16, 1625 – Palermo, Sicily
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Impressionism, Realism
Mary Cassatt
May 22, 1844 – Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, USA–June 14, 1926 – Le Mesnil-Théribus, France
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Impressionism
Berthe Morisot
January 14, 1841 – Bourges, France–March 2, 1895 – Paris, France
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