Women have been involved in creating art since the beginning of time despite the difficulties experienced in receiving training, trading their work and gaining recognition.
The best period for women artists was during the Middle Ages. It was later introduction of drawing from life models that made it harder for women to obtain specialized training, which became a requirement to be known as a professional artist due to reasons of decorum.
During the latter part of the twentieth century, historians have made an effort to rediscover the artistic accomplishments of women and give female artists their due place in narrative of art history.
There are no records of who the artists of the prehistoric eras were, but studies of many early ethnographers and cultural anthropologists show that women were often the principal artisans in the cultures considered as Neolithic and Paleolithic, creating pottery, textiles, cave paintings, baskets, jewelry and music. Collaboration on large projects by women during these eras was common.
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