At Palazzo Braschi, an exhibition pays homage to women artists active in Rome between the 16th and 19th centuries

From October 25, 2024 to March 23, 2025, the Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi hosts the exhibition Roma Pittrice. Women artists at work between the 16th and 19th centuries, curated by Ilaria Miarelli Mariani (director of the Direzione Musei Civici Sovrintendenza capitolina) and Raffaella Morselli (Sapienza, University of Rome), with the collaboration of Ilaria Arcangeli (University of Chieti). Promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali and organized by Zètema Progetto Cultura, the exhibition focuses on women artists active in Rome from the 16th to the 19th century with a rich, varied and artistically important production, but who have often been relegated to a sort of historiographical “silence.”

These include Caterina Ginnasi, Maria Felice Tibaldi Subleyras, Angelika Kaufmann, Laura Piranesi, Marianna Candidi Dionigi, Louise Seidler and Emma Gaggiotti Richards, who are present in the Capitoline collections, and a selection of other important women artists active in the city such as Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi, Maddalena Corvina, Giovanna Garzoni, and many others whose corpus is being reconstructed in the last decades of research. The different languages, genres and techniques are highlighted in the exhibition itinerary by representative stages and figures

About 130 works will be on display in the exhibition to describe the progressive insertion of women painters into the international market, with the arduous achievement of full access to training and to the city’s most important institutions, such as the Accademia di San Luca and the Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon.

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Image: Louise Seidler, Portrait of Dorothea Denecke von Ramdohr with her daughter Lilli (1819; oil on canvas, 118.5 x 96.2 cm; Rome, Museo di Roma). Photo by Alfredo Valeriani.

At Palazzo Braschi, an exhibition pays homage to women artists active in Rome between the 16th and 19th centuries

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