Ellet assembled the first survey of its kind in 1859: the paintresses of Greece and Rome, the illuminators and the nuns, Sofonisba Anguissola and Artemisia Gentileschi, Angelica Kauffman and Rosa Bonheur, and the sculptors of her own century — with attention throughout to the training women were and were not permitted.
Women artists gathered into a history for the first time. Download the free EPUB.