Clearly demonstrated examples of women at work in the arts during the medieval period are documented in the manuscript illuminations, embroideries, jewelry, carved capitals, and other forms of art created during this historical period. Women also worked as brewers, butchers, wool merchants and ironmongers (metal merchants).
Female artist during this era were from a small subset of society, whose status permitted them freedom from more strenuous types of work. These women artists were often from two literate classes, either wealthy aristocrats or nuns. Nuns often created embroideries and textiles.
Women have been creating jewelry from seashells, stones, found items, semi-precious stones, precious stones, metals and other materials for more than 100,000 years.
Isn’t interesting women have been creating art since the beginning of time just as men have and yet most female artist are not acknowledged as professional artists. Why is this???
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