Mulheres e o gênero do retrato : um estudo sobre a construção da (auto)imagem na pintura

Abstract

Art is institutionally centered on the figure of a great artist. The critics, formals process of education, production, tradition and structures are all admitted and apprehended by these. In this announced scenario, this paper seeks to analyze the self-portraits of women painters, from different centuries, which can bring revelations about the condition of the female space in the arts. The authorial retreats of Sofonisba Anguissola, Clara Peeters, Artemisia Gentileschi and Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun will be favored, being grouped with no consideration to their styles, but because of the fact that they made self portraits. Thus, based on Erwin Panofsky's iconological method, we discuss the meaning of these images as a subversion of emancipation or as an icon of a movement for equality and space.