First Annual International Women in Arts Conference

University of Arkansas Rome Program

Scientific Board:
Consuelo Lollobrigida, University of Arkansas
Laura Iamurri, Università di Roma Tre
Laura D’Angelo, University of Arkansas
Maria Elena Diez Jorge, Universidad de Granada
Felipe Serrano Estrella, Universidad de Jaen

Wednesday, Oct 20
OPENING REMARKS – 2:30 -3:45 pm
Curt Rom, Associate Dean GSIE
Francesco Bedeschi, Director UoARC
Portia Prebys, AACUPI
Lella Golfo, Presidente Fondazione Maria Belisario
Consuelo Lollobrigida, curator AIWAC

INAUGURAL GREETINGS - 4:00 – 4:15 pm
Sara Galletti, Professor of Architecture Duke University

FIRST SESSION - 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Literature and Illumination
Chair: Erene Rafik Morcos, Fellow at American Academy of Rome
Laura Mercader | Amicizia per il matrimonio. A proposito del discorso sull’amicizia di Mary Beale
Benedetta Muccioli | Gli scriptoria femminili in toscana tra umanesimo e rinascimento
Giovanna Murano | La prima storica d’Italia: Fiammetta Frescobaldi (1523-1586)
Silvia S. G. Palandri | La Marchesa Colombi e l’istruzione femminile nelle sue opere

6:30: Q&A

Thursday, Oct 21
SECOND SESSION - 9:00 - 12:30 AM

Patrons and Collectors
Chair: Consuelo Lollobrigida, University of Arkansas Rome Program
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend | Juana of Austria (1535-1573), Princess of Portugal. Royal patronage at the court of Philip II of Spain
Catherine Powell | Labour and art succeed where nature fails: the patronage, agency, and networking of Agnes Block (1629-1704)
Nadette Xuereb | The Role of Cosmana Navarra (c.1600-1687) as a Female Patron of the Arts in Baroque Malta
Katarzyna Chrzanowska | Franciszka Wiszowata (1701-1777) - a Nun as Patron of the Arts and Artist in Cracow in the 18th century
Breeze Barrington | Aletheia Talbot and the art of Italy: England’s first female collector
Adelina Modesti | Caterina Angiola Pieroncini, embroiderer, lacemaker and lady-in-waiting to Grand Duchess Vittoria della Rovere de’ Medici

12:30: Q&A

LUNCH BREAK - 1:00 - 2:30 PM

KEY NOTE SPEAKER - 2:30 - 3:30 PM
Maria Elena Díez Jorge, Universidad de Granada
Dal Palazzo alla Casa: Donne e Architettura nel XVI secolo in Spagna

THIRD SESSION - 3:30- 6:30 PM
Women at Work
Chair: Maria Elena Díez Jorge, Full Professor Universidad de Granad

Debra DeWitte | Where were all the Women Artists? Draughtswomen in 19th century France
Lynn Fitzpatrick | Medieval Textile Production: Warp Weighted Looms and the Women who Wove Them
Naya Carolina Beatriz and Ana Ágreda Pino | Done by and for women: precious materials and women’s embroidery in Renaissance Spain
Alexandra Massini | Marie Mancini, the Woman behind the Colonna Tapestries
Nicoletta Marconi | La pratica dell’architettura al femminile: donne nei cantieri romani di XVI - XVIII secolo
Lucia Calzona | Madame de Godefroy, pittrice dell’impero: nuovi documenti per un ritratto

6:30: Q&A

Friday, Oct 22
FOURTH SESSION - 9:00 - 12:30 AM
Early Modern
Chair: Laura D’Angelo, University of Arkansas Rome Program
Caterina Bavosi and Alessandro Serrani | Su un equivoco storiografico: Ginevra Cantofoli e il contesto della pittura bolognese del Seicento
Anne Bloemacher | Diana Scultori’s Hand at Work
Tori Champion | “Pazienza e diligenza”: Early Modern Women Artists in the Genre of Natural History
Antonio Jommelli | Per mano della pittrice Caterina Ginnasi (1581-1660), “piissime ac religiosissime feminae”
Elizabeth Lev | The Art and Authority of Lavina Fontana: Preaching to the Preachers
Susan Nalezyty | Geronima Parasole in the Portrait Collection at the Accademia di Luca in 1633
Annalisa Rinaldi | Dalle Parasole e Claudine Bouzonnet Stella. Protagoniste e “registe” nella bottega
Nadette Xuereb | Suor Maria de Dominici (1645-1703): a female artist in the Late Baroque period. Between myth and reality
Luana Testa | Le mani delle donne ovvero l’arte al femminile: una storia perturbante?
Angela Oberer, “I feel again the violence of a curious desire”. Rosalba Carriera’s erotic art and her appreciative clientele

12:30: Q&A

LUNCH BREAK - 1:00 - 2:30 PM

FIFTH SESSION - 2:30 - 6:30 PM
Modern and Contemporary
Chair: Laura Iamurri, Professore Associato Roma Tre
Alba Tania Rios | “The Process of Sculpture”: a defense against fraud accusation
Eliana Billi | Il restauro in Italia nel secondo Novecento: eccellenze al femminile
Paola Caretta and Margherita Fratarcangeli | I “frutti” di Fede, Orsola, Giovanna alla prova della critica del primo Novecento (Marangoni, Longhi, De Logu)
Elli Leventaki | Gender-biased documentation of women visual artists in early 20th century Greece, or where did this chapter go?
Vincent Guiot | Baroness Renée Irana Frachon (1881-1983). Life of an unknown Muse
Elizaveta Miroshnikova | Valentine Gross-Hugo: the first female artist in surrealism
Laia Moner Manonelles | Xiao Lu: Dialogue
Emilio Del Gesso | Julie Polidoro
Kinga Araya | Walking with Kinga: 2011-2021

6:30: Q&A

CLOSING REMARKS - 7:00 - 7:30 PM
Meriel Tulante, Jefferson University
Darya Majidi, Ceo Daxo Group, President Donne 4.0
Laura Passera, Consiglio dell’Associazione Donne della Vite
Consuelo Lollobrigida, University of Arkansas Rome Program

The conference will be streamed on the YouTube channel of the University of Arkansas Rome Program. The link will be provided upon registration at: https://bit.ly/womeninartsconference

Registration deadline: Oct 19, 2021