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The Story of Women and Art

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Genre
  
Art documentary

Original language(s)
  
English

Running time
  
60 minutes

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of episodes
  
3

The Story of Women and Art

Presented by
  
Professor Amanda Vickery

The Story of Women and Art is a television documentary series, consisting of three one-hour episodes, on the history of women artists in Europe from the Renaissance onwards, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in May 2014. The series is presented by Professor Amanda Vickery.

Artists featured include Properzia de' Rossi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Anne Seymour Damer, Angelica Kauffman, and the 17th-century Dutch paper cutter Joanna Koerten. Episode 3 covered Lady Butler, Berthe Morisot, Gertrude Jekyll, Karin Larsson, Madeleine Vionnet, and Georgia O'Keefe. The programme was well received by some critics, but criticized by others.

References

The Story of Women and Art Wikipedia