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Female patronage and artistic innovation

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:16 +0000

Audiovisual capsule on the “matronzago”, that is, the artistic promotion by women, focusing in this case on the Modern Age. Duration: 6.34min. The video, produced by Begoña Alonso (University of Cantabria), is designed for university students (Degree in History, Master and PhD in Modern History) and is one of the results of the teaching innovation project “History and Art Capsules II. History, with gender and in feminine”, funded by the University of Cantabria through a competitive public call (2020). This teaching project was coordinated by Begoña Alonso and Benita Herreros Cleret de Langavant (PIs), with the participation, together with the two researchers mentioned above, of Tomás A. Mantecón Movellán and Rubén Castro Redondo

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Francisco de Goya

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:11 +0000

This resource is about Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), Spanish painter and engraver, multifaceted artist, portraitist of royalty, bullfighting enthusiast, with his 33 engravings on this theme, whose life is surrounded by several anecdotes, one of them being the mystery of the whereabouts of his skull, as it was not found inside the coffin when his body was exhumed in 1888 in Bordeaux. His technique, full of versatility and rapid execution, has transcended the history of art and the artist is considered one of the best in his craft. It also describes how several of his paintings were lost, two of which belonged to the collection of María Josefa de la Soledad Alfonso-Pimentel y Téllez-Girón, Duchess of Osuna. Lastly, reference is made to works by him that have disappeared or are misattributed, such as The Milkmaid of Bordeaux and The Colossus, in which the importance of the master’s disciples is emphasised.

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Motherhood throughout history

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:41 +0000

The video is part of the Research Group on Literary Sources for the History of Women of the Complutense University of Madrid, accessible from the web of didactic/divulgative resources on the History of women and gender relations in Spain, and deals with motherhood throughout History from an interdisciplinary perspective through the interventions of prestigious specialists such as Gloria Franco Rubio, Pilar Díaz Sánchez, Cristina Segura Graiño, María Jesús Fuente Pérez and María Soledad Arredondo Sirodey. With a duration of 23 minutes, the aim is to bring this type of research on cross-cutting issues such as motherhood to students, teachers at different levels of education and the general public. For other videos of the research group see the website https://www.ucm.es/historiamujeresgeneroesp/

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The history of women in the Prado Museum. Educational guide

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:41 +0000

According to the presentation made by the Museo del Prado itself, the Didactic Guide is based on the need to promote the association of museums and educational institutions to create joint strategies to overcome gender inequalities through a critical approach to the history and theories of art. The project is part of “Didactics 2.0 Museums in Feminine”, a project that is the result of joint work between a team from the Feminist Research Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid, the e-Women Association and the teams from the Museums participating in the project: Museo del Prado, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Museo del Traje and Museo Nacional de Cerámica González Martí. The itineraries prepared by Antonia Fernández Valencia, Marián López Fernández Cao and Asunción Bernárdez Rodal address two basic themes: Women and power and Women’s jobs. According to these authors, although they are clearly related to each other, we can say that they have a profoundly complementary character from a social point of view, since the first one basically includes the works and biographies of women from royal and noble houses, while the second one, even including some examples of women from these groups due to their political activity, focuses essentially on the works of women from the middle and working classes. Both itineraries choose different works that put us in contact with different aspects of women in history and can lead us in turn to different themes of the History of Spain in the Modern Age. They are divided into several blocks: Discourse on motherhood, devotion, power and women’s knowledge; Queens and regents in Hapsburg Spain; Our daily work; Family portraits; and Women with their own name. With a clear methodology in terms of objectives and content, as well as the keys to analysis that are of most interest, in each section there is a section of proposed activities and complementary activities for students. And at the end, a series of appendices are added which deal with aspects related to the portraits, questioning the social situation or abounding in lines of conceptual work which can be expanded on later by resorting to other primary sources or historiography.

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Women’s lives through ceramics and sumptuary arts

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:41 +0000

Didactic guide that aims to provide work material for teachers and students interested in opening up new avenues of reflection based on active participation and critical questioning of the history and theories of art with the inclusion of the gender perspective. From the collections of the Museo Nacional de Cerámica Gonzalez Martí, which houses a series of objects that refer us to different spheres of artistic reflection and cultural production, the aim is to raise questions about gender equality. Objects that speak to us from the power of accumulation and wealth to different forms of reproduction of everyday life and care, from the most intimate spheres to the presence of the public sphere. The itinerary proposed by the authors – Asunción Bernardez Rodal, Antonia Fernández Valencia and Marián López Fernández Cao – responds to the need to give greater visibility to women’s work and their participation in both material and symbolic life throughout history. The itinerary we propose has two lines of development: on the one hand, it aims to highlight the importance of women in artistic creation in general and in ceramics in particular, questioning above all the traditional role of women in art, which has been above all that of being models for artists. Secondly, the analysis of social space as significant places where gender relations are expressed. Although the chronological approach of the guide is long-term, the Modern Age has an important presence. The project is part of “Didactics 2.0 Museums in Feminine”, a project that is the result of joint work between a team from the Feminist Research Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid, the e-Women Association and the teams from the museums participating in the project: Museo del Prado, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Museo del Traje and Museo Nacional de Cerámica González Martí

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