First, my congratulations to all the girls who pass by here. Today marks the centennial of Women's Day.
My desire is, you know, that one day soon this anniversary becomes meaningless and become only a memory. Today I want to
three women, there are many more, I admire since I met them and I also know it: In Hedu'Anna, Sofonisba Anguissola and Luisa Roldán "The Pulley."
daughter of King Sargon the Great, king who united Sumer and Akkad, was high priestess of the goddess Inanna, (La Luna), extremely important role as the only person who could issue new laws in Babylon, controlled and math skills Sumerian and Babylonian astronomy, which is why a precursor of these sciences.
Through his work, which speaks of his family and even tells a legend about his birth much like Moses, we know some facts of his personal history. Through identification with Inanna could describe their suffering at the loss of her beauty and aging.
In it are preserved more than 40 poems on cuneiform tablets. The best known is the "Nîmes".
is considered as a paradigm of the role women have played in science since the origins of humanity.
The eldest of seven children: six girls and one boy, his father made sure that both his sisters Sofonisba get a good education in which the arts were included.
At the age of 14, his father sent along with her sister Elena to study with Bernardino Campi. Elena became a nun (Sofonisba painted a portrait of her) and had to stop painting, and Ana María and Europe left him to marry, while Lucia, the best painter of the sisters, died young. The other sister, Minerva, became writer and Latin scholar. Hasdrubal, brother man, he studied music and Latin, but not painted.
met in Rome to Michelangelo, which was good advice. Although told with courage and support, rather than the other women of her age, social class not allowed to go beyond the limits for their sex. There was the possibility of studying anatomy and drawing from life, as it was considered unacceptable for a woman who saw naked bodies.
After portraying the Duke of Alba, was invited to come to Spain at the court of Philip II as a lady of his third wife, Isabel de Valois, and as painter to the king. Married
Francisco de Moncada, viceroy of Sicily. When this was widowed, she married the captain of the ship that was traveling back to Cremona. Orazio, her new husband was younger than she recognized his art and supported him in everything. They settled in Genoa where he continued painting until the advanced age of ninety. Nearly blind, died at age 93.
The day would have been a hundred years, his widow, he put a headstone on his grave that read: "A Sofonisba, my wife .... who is remembered among the illustrious women of the world, in portraying the images of man ... Lomellino Orazio, sorry for the loss of his great love, in 1632, dedicated this little tribute to this great woman. "
On your next visit to El Escorial, ask to teach you the image that there are and which is entitled "St. Michael defeating the devil." San Miguel will see a stranger, with feminine features, narrow waist and bust of woman. At his feet a devil horned, naked and has an uncanny resemblance to Luis Antonio de los Arcos, the husband of the author of the image, Luisa Ignacia Roldán. This was revenge for the bad life had given him.
By the way, San Miguel is the spitting image.
learned the art of imagery in the studio of his father, Peter Roland, a renowned sculptor. He worked in Seville, Cadiz and ends in Madrid at the court of Charles II as king's chamber sculptor and his successor, Felipe V.
had seven children of whom only three survived. The bad luck through her life dying in poverty.
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