Acknowledging, Finally, the Work of Women Artists

London – ‘I will show your Excellency what a woman can do,” wrote the 16th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi to one of her aristocratic patrons. Some three centuries later, the American artist Georgia O’Keefe remarked: “The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I’m one of the best painters.”

The struggle of women artists to gain recognition as artists, regardless of their sex, is the underlying leitmotif of “The Art of Women from the Renaissance to Surrealism,” a far-ranging exhibition of 260 works by 140 artists at the Palazzo Reale in Milan until March 9.

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