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Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons: 1500-1650
URL: http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/ONLINE/women/

Description:
Female power is explored in this online exhibition of 100 Old Master paintings, prints, book illustrations, drawings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Visual representations and real stories of women who ruled, including Athena, Aphrodite, Catherine de' Medici, Elizabeth I, Eve, Helen of Troy, and Joan of Arc, are represented in this virtual tour of powerful women. From the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Author:
Dixon, Arnette

Publisher:
Regents of the University of Michigan

Extra Keywords
christina of sweden hera judith

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Arts, Baroque
Arts, Renaissance
Queens in art
Women in art

LII Database Information:
Record 3421 created by on 03/01/2002
Last modification on 03/15/2006
Published: 03/01/2002  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/3421