If you have visited European and U.S. national museums, you might have noticed that women are noticeably absent from the fine art canon until the 20th century. But as it happens, women have been practitioners of the fine arts since the 16th century, sandwiched between the Caravaggios, Rembrandts, Fragonards and Gauguins who produced high-quality work in the Renaissance, Dutch Master, Rococo and …

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