Renaissance Women: Wives, Patrons, Painters - Gail Brown

Renaissance Women: Wives, Patrons, Painters – Gail Brown

Renaissance Women: Wives, Patrons, Painters – Gail Brown

Renaissance Women looks at three women from the 16th & 17th centuries. They are:

The great art patron & style icon, Isabella d’Este and two artists …
…. Sofonisba Anguissola
& the great Artemisia Gentileschi.

The talk examines how they challenged convention & were regarded as formidable cultural voices.

Incidentally, Isabella d’Este was the subject of a historical novel by Sarah Dunant, published last year. More info on that here: https://www.sarahdunant.com/the-marchesa

About Gail Brown

From her website: https://www.tangerinearttalks.co.uk/gail-brown

I have been a passionate advocate for the empowering potential that the study of art and its makers provides for more than 30 years. Since my first contact with the subject as an A level student, to an undergraduate and then a teacher of Art History for over 25 years.

In an age where our experience is saturated with visual imagery, the study of art provides an extraordinary language to talk about and analyse what we look at. Through my talks I aim to provide a rigorous and wide-ranging investigation into some of the greatest aspects of human achievement and endeavour. To be able to converse and discuss value and meaning, philosophies and theories relating to these endeavours is an entirely empowering skill and one which I would like to share and foster as widely as possible.