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Posted by Lori Erickson on January 21, 1999 at 16:06:15:

<b>Renaissance Women </b>

After discussing Queen Elizabeth being such a good ruler and an outstanding woman of the Renaissance period, I began to wonder more about the role of women and if there were other important women to learn about. I was very surprised at the amount of women that did have such an impact on humanity during these times. I wasn't surprised that there were women doing soemthing bu that we don't hear much about them and that they are remembered.

Philosophers


Although men have primarily dominated the field of philosophy throughout history, there were many important women philosophers. Christine de Pisan, who we talked about in class, is one, among others like Antoinette Bourgnion, who was a radical advocate of Quietism and Marie le Jars de Gournay who is known as one of the earliest modern feminist phlosopher.

Composers


I didn't even give a thought to composing when I was looking for women of the Renaissance but the first website that jumped off my search engine was one on women composers. I found this site interesting because of the number of composers there were and how well put together the site was.A few composer I thought were interesting was Anne Boleyn and Queen Elizabeth I. The fact that Elizabeth was such a music lover can help us understand more of her personality and her reign as queen.

True "Renaissance Women"


A "Renaissance Man" was a well-educated, well-adjusted, all-around intelligent man. Well, besides the men that fit into that catagory, there are also a few women, such as Isabella d' Este and Catherine de Medici . These two defied stereotypes and were well-educated and had duties that went beyond entertaining men and bearing children.

Writers


There were many women writers in the 15thand16th centuries. My favorite writer that I read about is Juliana Berners, who in 1496 wrote the first essay on fly fishing.

Artists


On thing that women was encouraged to do was to be an artist. Yes, this may not have been in the same way men were artists, it was probably more like a way to show that your wife had some talent. One of the known artists was Artemisa Gentileschi.

This is Gentileschi's 'Judith Beheading Holofernes' (1618). Another artist (a href="http://www.nmwa.org/legacy/bios/bfontana.htm">Lavinia Fontana is thought of as the firsdt woman painter to have a successful career. One painting 'Portrait of a Nobel Woman' was painted in 1580.


I hope for one that this all worked out. If not oh well, I am a fool for trying. I hope you found some of this as interesting as I did.
Lori



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