The Real Queens of the Louvre Museum | LivTalks with Laure

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45 minutes

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Wed April 22, 9:15 pm Paris Time

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The Real Queens of the Louvre Museum | LivTalks with Laure

Discover women artists and artwork throughout the Louvre, beyond the Mona Lisa

Understand what role women have played in history to shape the art world today

Learn about the surge of interest in women’s lost legacies & the #metoo movement

Spend 45 minutes with Laure with a live Q&A for your questions

LivTalks presents the The Real Queens of the Louvre Museum with Laure in Paris! If you think of the Louvre, you’ll have no difficulties identifying its most well-known icon – the Mona Lisa. In the world’s largest museum, the celebration of the female body certainly is depicted in an endless array of poses and techniques: painting, sculpture, architecture or decorative arts. The Venus de Milo, Liberty Leading the People, Artemis with a Doe, Ingres’ Odalisques all embody internationally famous emblems of a first-class collection. As unquestionable canons of ideal beauty, each of these works typifies the eternal feminine offered to the pleasure of the viewer’s gaze.

Follow Laure in an exploration of – “Do women have to be naked to enter the museum?”, a declaration by activist group Guerilla Girls in the late 80s on billboards featuring Ingres’ supine nude. Explore how few women artists are featured in this amazing museum – it is said that the Louvre comprises a totality of 460,000 exhibits., yet only 663 of these have been attributed to women artists, which means that only 5% to 10% of this museum’s collections is devoted to female creation. A but of food for thought when comparing this number to how many women artists were admitted to the Salon – the official art exhibition of the Royal Academy in Paris – before the French Revolution.

However, the Louvre does feature works by artists celebrated during their lifetime. Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744 – 1818), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749 – 1803) and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755 – 1842) – the sole female painter of the Ancien Régime to have been the subject of a major retrospective in Paris recently – were labelled “The Three Graces” by their contemporaries, thanks to their skills and their almost simultaneous admission to the Academy of the Arts. Because they were restricted to the production of pictorial genres deemed as less “noble” and barred access to certain institutions, women have been written off art history and heritage as we have conceived it since the 18th century.

Learn how it was thought that because of the “weaker” nature of women, they were thought to be incapable of creating or becoming geniuses. On moral grounds, respectable ladies were forbidden to attend life classes and draw from the nude, thus resorting to a more limited range of formats and techniques. Born from Revolutionary models of equity and democratization of culture, can the Louvre still maintain its motto of universalism? As an example for museums in Europe and abroad, this institution nevertheless established itself around gender difference. Only recently, through the influence of the #MeToo movement, has there been a surge of interest in women’s lost legacies. Gender studies entering the museum are thus valuable assets enabling us to shatter traditional art histories and create alternative narratives.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN FROM THE REAL QUEENS OF THE LOUVRE LIVTALKS WITH LAURE?
This 45 minute live webinar will give you an overview how women have shaped the collection of art throughout the Louvre Museum (and beyond), and how they have been viewed throughout history in terms of artistry.

TIME FOR Q&A WITH YOU!
Laure will dedicate the first 30 minutes of his talk to give you a detailed description of women artists and art in the Louvre Museum and the last 15 minutes of the webinar will be dedicated to you and your questions. Simply write your questions within the chat, and Laure will cover your burning desire questions or any topics not covered.

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PLEASE NOTE: All webinars can be purchased up to 15 minutes prior to the start time.

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Wed April 22, 9:15 pm Paris Time

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