The Mirror and the Palette: 500 Years of Women’s Self Portraits

She’s in competition with history, which has always been dismissive of her power. Until very recently, museums wouldn’t buy her work, art historians wouldn’t acknowledge her and commercial galleries would only rarely represent her. She’s a miracle, a marvel, a mystic, a seductress, a changeling, a visionary, a man-hater, a freak; she’s never considered normal.

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