Post 4 17th and 18th Century, Mya Germain.

 QUOTES:

Chadwick:
[Chapter 4]
1. "Court appointments exempted women from guild regulation during the Renaissance and they provided women artists with an important alternative to academies and other institutions which increasingly restricted or prohibited their participation."
Response:
Women History digs deep. It shows that women have been trying to adapt further in old times. That adaption being slow but getting the move on.

2. "Although we know of no women painters engaged in landscape and history painting during this period, the spread of humanism and the educational and domestic ideology of the Protestant Reformation increased literacy among women in the North and their participation in the visual arts."
Response:
At least women could create art in certain instances.
[Chapter 5]
1. "Never had a culture been so immersed in the pursuit of qualities later derided as “feminine,” namely artifice, sensation, and pleasure."
Response:
It feels like women of the past had to run on routine. Not as much freedom that we get nowadays.

2. "As long as the woman artist presented a self-image emphasizing beauty, gracefulness, and modesty, and as long as her paintings appeared to confirm this construction, she could, albeit with difficulty, negotiate a role for herself in the world of public art."
Response:
This further explains the adaption that women kept enduring. Women started creating art behind royalty, where they get benefits too.

Guerrilla Girls:
1. "Academies evolved from guilds, which, beginning in the Middle Ages, provided a network for artisans to get training and jobs."
Response:
It's nice to have the small history lessons on how arts been around.

Artwork:

First Great Seal of Elizabeth l, 1559.
Response:
This Artwork catches my interests because what's displayed on it. The detail is incredible and it looks like it's on stone or some kind of object you could carve. Also the age of which it came from is fascinating to look back on.