Catherine the Great’s passion for the visual arts is well known, but this is the first study of the women artists who benefited from her patronage. Professor Blakesley brings together visual and documentary sources to deepen our understanding of what it meant to be a woman artist in the 18th century – and complicate our sense of the reign of the Russian ruler.
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