AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY SARAH DUNANT

When you think of the Italian renaissance, how many female names come to mind? They may have been half of the population, but very few women have made it into history. Did any of them hold a paintbrush? Compose music? Collect art and antiquities ? Rule states? What was it like to born female in what on the surface looks like a man’s age?

 In this sumptuously illustrated lecture, Sarah Dunant, author of a trilogy of best selling novels about women’s lives in the renaissance,  shares her own journey through art and scholarship, to bring to life many of women who lived during this extraordinary period of history.  And along the way she celebrates some figures who deserve a much bigger place in our imaginations and our history books.