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Dangerous women by Virginia Brilliant; Kimberly L Dennis; Mary D Garrard; Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum; George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dangerous women about?

Dangerous Women presents works from the rich holdings of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art that explore different artists' responses to the women of the Bible Evokes a politically charged theme celebrating the strength of women and their ability to take back power in adverse circumstances Features contributions from leading scholars of feminist and Renaissance art Accompanies exhibition at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum (September 8 - December 30, 2018) The Old and New Testaments are full of compelling female characters: good wives and bad, courageous heroines, and deceptive - sometimes deadly - femmes fatales. Dangerous Women presents works from the rich holdings of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art that explore different artists' responses to the women of the Bible. Paintings by Pietro da Cortona, Francesco Cairo, and Fede Galizia and others stand as a reminder of how dangerous biblical women have continued to loom large in the modern imagination. These stories in this volume show how narratives of power are constructed, interpreted, and continue to evolve over the course of time. While some women saved their people, were

Author

Virginia Brilliant; Kimberly L Dennis; Mary D Garrard; Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum; George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Publisher

New York: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781785511196

Subjects

Art, Arts