Rooms 5 and 6
The first part of the exhibition culminates in the image of the female warrior. To begin with, virgin warriors, maidens in armour after the Joan of Arc prototype. Armour enables women to crossdress and engage in typically male activities, but it is also a convincing metaphor for virginity. In the art of the late-19th century, through painters as diverse as Edgar Degas and Franz von Stuck, female warriors threw off their cuirasses to return to the original image of the ancient Amazons and take up the feminist demands which were beginning to be made.
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- Autor:
- Edgar Degas
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- Spartan Girls Challenging Boys, c. 1860
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- Oil on canvas, 109.5 x 155 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- The National Gallery, London. Bought, 1924, Inv. no.: NG3860
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- Autor:
- Franz von Stuck
- Título:
- Wounded Amazon, 1904
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- Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 103.8 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Galerie Katharina Büttiker-Art Nouveau-Art Déco
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- Autor:
- Mona Hatoum
- Título:
- Over my Dead Body, 1988–2002
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Inkjet on PVC, 204.5 x 305 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Courtesy White Cube © Mona Hatoum
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- Autor:
- Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
- Título:
- Palas Atenea, c. 1655–59
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- Oil on canvas, 118 x 91 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Inv. no.: 1488
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