Emily Dickinson | The Spirit lasts, but in what mode / Lo Spirito persiste, ma in che modo..

The Spirit lasts - but in what mode -

Below, the Body speaks,

But as the Spirit furnishes -

Apart, it never talks -

The Music in the Violin

Does not emerge alone

But Arm in Arm with Touch, yet Touch

Alone - is not a Tune -

Sir. Joshua Reynolds PRA | Mrs. Lloyd | Smithsonian American Art Museum

Jane DeDecker | The Women's Suffrage Monument / Monumento al Suffragio Femminile

By Jane DeDecker / The concept of this proposed women’s monument was inspired by a letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Lucretia Mott in which she wrote about the power of words and deeds:

"Every word we utter, every act we perform, waft unto innumerable circles, beyond".

I wanted to capture the collective energy from all women who have made this happen, as well as acknowledge that we still need to keep moving as we strive for equality.

When a water droplet impacts a body of water it pushes waves outward and rebounds upward as a smaller droplet. This droplet, called the daughter droplet - gains height - then falls back to the water in what is called a coalescent cascade. This describes the height, breadth, and lasting impact of the Suffragists’ work.

The composition centrally places Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton writing the Declaration of Sentiments. This friendship holds the beginning of the women’s movement, the drop of water coalescing its impact on US history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony writing the Sentiments forms a unified force that truly speaks of the oneness of their purpose.

Alda Merini | Inno alla donna

Stupenda

immacolata fortuna

per te tutte le creature

del regno

si sono aperte

e tu sei diventata la regina

delle nostre ombre

Giuliano Grittini, 1951 | Leonardo

Hafsa Idrees, 1992 | Finger painter

Hafsa Idrees is an Pakistani painter and writer born in Islamabad.

- "Art has always been close to my heart and even though I have not received a formal education in any particular genre, drawing/painting is an important part of my life. Since school, I have been experimenting with and enjoying different styles, media and techniques".

"I started with Arabic calligraphy at the age of 10 but I soon realized that I enjoyed painting and drawing too. My subjects then were things and people from my immediate surroundings but with time I started to explore different kinds of paints, pencils, materials and subjects".

Bobbie Burgers, 1973 | Abstract floral painter

Vancouver artist Bobbie Burgers received a B.A. in Art History in 1996 from the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

Her work has been exhibited widely at home and abroad, notably including Art Market San Francisco and Equinox Gallery.

Today, her works are in the collections of the Berost Corporation in Toronto and the Royal Bank of Canada, among others.

Burgers lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Plautilla Nelli | The Last Supper, 1570

The "Last Supper", in the refectory of Santa Maria Novella (not open to the public), is the only work Plautilla Nelli (1524-1588) signed.

Painted in the 1560s, Nelli's "Last Supper" is a first rendered by a woman. Florence has the richest tradition of paintings with the theme of the "Last Supper" in the world.

Her most significant work because of its size and subject, it is a seven-meter long oil on canvas.

Last Supper was under restoration for four years.

Catharina van Hemessen (1528-1587) | Pittrice Fiamminga del Rinascimento

Catharina van Hemessen | Self-portrait, 1546-48 (detail) | Kuntsmuseum Basel

Catharina van Hemessen è stata una pittrice Fiamminga.

Figlia del pittore Jan Sanders van Hemessen, da cui con ogni probabilità apprese le prime tecniche della pittura, Catharina van Hemessen è la prima pittrice Fiamminga di cui si possa definire con certezza l'opera e la prima pittrice di cui si conosca un autoritratto, l'Autoritratto al cavalletto.

Properzia de' Rossi (1490-1530) | The Only Woman in Vasari's Lives

Vita di madonna Properzia de' Rossi, scultrice bolognese

Properzia de Rossi | Relief of Joseph and Potiphars wife | Museum of San Petronio in Bologna

È gran cosa che in tutte quelle virtù et in tutti quelli esercizii ne’ quali, in qualunque tempo, hanno voluto le donne intromettersi con qualche studio, elle siano sempre riuscite eccellentissime e più che famose, come con una infinità di esempli agevolmente potrebbe dimostrarsi.

E certamente ognun sa quanto elleno universalmente tutte nelle cose economiche vagliono, oltra che nelle cose della guerra, medesimamente si sa chi fu Camilla, Arpalice, Valasca, Tomiri, Pantasilea, Molpadia, Orizia, Antiope, Ippolita, Semiramide, Zenobia; chi finalmente Fulvia di Marcantonio che, come dice Dione istorico, tante volte s’armò per defender il marito e se medesima.

Ma nella poesia ancora sono state maravigliosissime: come racconta Pausania, Corinna fu molto celebre nel versificare, et Eustachio, nel catalogo delle navi d’Omero, fa menzione di Safo, onoratissima giovane; il medesimo fa Eusebio nel libro de’ tempi, la quale invero se ben fu donna, ella fu però tale che superò di gran lunga tutti gli eccellenti scrittori di quella età.