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Hey there, Art Curious listeners. I am traveling this month and so I am re-airing some older episodes

for you to enjoy here once again. In celebration of our

recent Cherche la Femm season, I am choosing three of my favorite episodes on female artists to

re-air over the next couple of weeks. And hint, hint, the last episode of this series will refer directly

to our upcoming season. So keep your eyes and ears peeled

out for that one next month. Today, though, I am returning to share the story of Angelica Kaufman,

one of the prized painters of the 18th century. So please enjoy, and thank you for listening.

For most people, there's a list of artists you might be able to rattle off if pressed to name them off the top of your head.

Picasso, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, maybe even Andy Warhol or Claude Monet.

And that's fine. As an art historian, I don't expect everyone to know a phone book's worth of artists.

And granted, the names of famous

musicians or current movie stars are probably more at the forefront of our minds than painters from

long ago. But it's easy to note that name recognition does go a long way. People know the names

of the artists that they know. And while that seems a little bit obvious, such lists also highlight

what many of us don't know,

a huge treasure trove of talented artists from decades or centuries past that might not be household

names, but still have created incredible additions to the story of art. It's not a surprise that

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