Female Homosociality/-eroticism and Artistic Consumption: Women Art Collectors and Religious Symbolism in Pre-Raphaelite Works, 1850-1870

Description

This seminar talk explored ways in which women’s disparate, yet aligned experiences in Pre-Raphaelite art collecting led to the formation of a shared, artistic identity that stems from a collective interest in expressing homosocial and -erotic relations.

Period	2021
Held at	New Directions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art (NDENCA)