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Women and Men in Renaissance Art

The term “Renaissance Man� was coined During the Renaissance, a movement that took place from roughly 1300 to 1500 and means “rebirth.� “Renaissance Man� is still used to today to describe a person who is creative, artistic, musical, and worldly and can seemingly able and willing “to do it all.� However, it is important to note here that the term is clearly “Renaissance Man,� not “Renaissance Woman,� as during the Renaissance, it was men who were considered the great artists and creative geniuses. The Guerrilla Girls suggest in their “Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art,� that the masters of the Renaissance, (painters famous to everyone such as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Caravaggio) make it hard for “Renaissance Women� to gain visibility and it is only through them that we can find evidence as to what women were like during the Renaissance. There seems to be only a few well-known female artists from......

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