Religious iconography realized by andalusian women artists s of the 19th century

Abstract

The present article is and result of several years of investigation on the teaching and the artistic learning of the woman in Andalusia in the 19th century, analyzing it in his artistic job with the religious subject matter. The copies of pictures of big painters they were alternating with the own compositions of some of them. Today few works realized by women exist but they turn out to be suf ficient to estimate why they were choosing this topic: well because they had acquired an advanced level of learning or for the own devotion that many of the authoresses were practising in the religious area.