‎Consuelo Lollobrigida, Adelina Modesti (eds)‎
‎Women's Legacies in Natural Studies, Health, and Liberal Arts. Proceedings of the Second Annual International Women in the Arts Conference‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, 240 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:8 b/w, 62 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503621074.‎

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‎Summary This volume is the proceeding of "Women's Legacies in Natural Studies, Health, and Liberal Arts" the second edition of AIWAC, held in Rome in 2022. The past decade has seen a considerable amount of research centered on the legacy of women as patrons of the arts, artists, writers, philosophers. The book focuses on the correlation between women and naturalism from ancient times to contemporaneity, and explores the topic more thoroughly in the context of Natural Studies, seen as a subject of investigation in multiple disciplines. In presenting these essays, this work continues the mission of AIWAC: to build an interdisciplinary and international community dedicated to rewriting cultural history in ways that fully acknowledge the significant role of women. The work begun here points toward future research, future dialogues, and future conferences in which the legacies of women in the arts will continue to be made visible, valued, and celebrated. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Consuelo Lollobrigida The 'lux vivens' and Hildegard's New Senses Tools for Knowledge of God and Nature Teodoro De Giorgio Why Have There Been So Many Women Pioneers in Still-Life? Patricia Simons A Gendered Nature Women and Naturalism in Early Modern Bologna Patricia Rocco Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun e la malattia dell'artista Stefania Biancani Women-Founders of Prague Loreto in the Context of the Iconographic Motif of the Miraculous Nativity According to St Bridget of Sweden Marie Vymazalová Elizabeth Gould, 'The Queen of All Naturalists' Leah Tharpe L'opera di una vita Il giardino di carta di Mary Delany Alessia Muroni Ramus 'Uccellami e fiorami' for History and Poetry in Grand Ducal Florence The Naturalistic Drawings of Suor Maria Benigna Cavalcanti (Convent of Le Murate) and Suor Caterina Angelica della Vacchia (Convent of Santa Chiara) Loretta Vandi Household Manuals and the Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse The Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Home as Site of Knowledge Production Michelle Moseley-Christian Neroli, the Essence of Princesse des Ursins' Legacy The Blooming of a Legend Alba Carballeira 'She Ruled Our King' Artemisia Gentileschi's Weaning Madonna and Marian Reinvention in Counter-Reformation Rome Margaret M. Barnes Today's Madonnas The Image of Motherhood as Depicted by Hungarian Female Painters in Interwar Art Anna Kopócsy Female Bodies in Motion from Hysterical Dancing to Art Performance Laura D'Angelo and Luana Testa Francesca Alinovi: Critique as Performance A Source for Art History Francesca Valentini Unseen Modernities Re-imagining the Visionary 'Real' in the Art of Marianne Stokes, 1880s-1910s Juliet Simpson Sneaky Peeks Women in the Bedroom Lara Demori A Marriage between Nature and Architecture Feminine Biophilic Francesca Riccardo POSTFACE: Some Thoughts on Women, Art, Nature, Science Female Pioneers in Still Life, Botanical Painting, and Scientific Illustration Adelina Modesti List of illustrations‎