HISTORY OF WOMEN THROUGH ART


Since the beginning of humanity, women have been worshipped, adored, cherished, celebrated, imitated, wooed, and admired. Women also have been defamed, castigated, condemned, abused, maligned, raped, and murdered.

Women can be lovers, wives, mothers, healers, writers, artists, inventors, queens, princesses, presidents, administrators, tradespeople, laborers, aviators, astronauts, navigators, recording artists, and soldiers. They are served by, and serve many. Women give to all walks of life, yet are also considered more than mere mortals, because they remain the source of all life.

Because women symbolize so much to so many, they have been depicted on cave walls and in oil portraits. They are a favorite subject of artists in all genres, since they represent beauty and bounty, mayhem and madness, courage and constancy, seduction and sex, nakedness and style. They are the world to the world, birth givers, nurturers, mentors and molders of the present and future.

Internationally known artist, Joanne Battiste, a good friend to Women's International Center and to women everywhere, has graciously allowed us to exhibit some of her art on our website. The series appearing on this site is entitled "Heroines". There are over fifty paintings showing the gifts of women throughout history. Joanne also paints very large paintings, often whimsical, depicting women escaping from "dead end" situations and stereotypes. Ms. Battiste resides and has her studio in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

"AIN'T I A WOMAN?"
ADA, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE
AMATERASU
AMAZON
ANCIENT GODDESSES
APHRODITE
ARIADNE
ARTEMIS
ASHTORETH - Hebrew
ASTARTE
ATHENA
BETWEEN THE LINES
BOUDICCA
BRIGID
BRONTË SISTERS
CATHERINE THE GREAT II
CH'ANG-O - A VOICELESS POEM
CHALCHIHUITLIQUE
CHANGED: THE TRICKSTER HAS BEEN TRICKED
CHANGING WOMAN - THE DANCE
CHRISTINE de PIZAN
CLARA HALE
CLEOPATRA
COATLIQUE
CONSECRATION
CORAZON AQUINO
DEMETER AND KORE (PERSEPHONE)
DISTRIBUTION OF POWER AMONG
EARTH MADONNA
EARTH MOTHER, THE PRIMAL SEED
EGERIA
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ELIZABETH I
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
ESTHER
EVA DUARTE-PERN
GAEA
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
GODDESS OF THE AMERICAN
GOLDA Mabovitch MEIR
HARRIET HOSMER
HECATE - QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
HELEN OF TROY
HYPATIA
I BELONG TO THE ANCIENT
II, KOREA AND NAM
IMMIGRANT
INANNA
INDIRA GANDHI
IRIS
ISABELLA HARDENBURGH
ISABELLA OF CASTILE
ISIS
IX CHEL
JESSICA SAVITCH
JOAN OF ARC
JUNO
LILITH
MARGARET MEAD, THE SHEPHERD
MARIA CALLAS
MARIA THERESA
MARIAN ANDERSON
MARILYN MONROE
MARTHA MITCHELL
MAWU-JEZANNA
MEDUSA
MELPOMONE
MOTHER THERESA
NIKE (REGINA VICTORIA)
OF THE SHADOWS
PANDORA: TWENTIETH CENTURY
PELE
PEOPLE
PSYCHE
QUEEN OF SHEBA
SHEHERAZADE
SOPHIA
SPIDER WOMAN
SPIRIT WOMAN
ST. BARBARA
THE CHANGING WOMAN
THEODORA
THINKING WOMAN
TOO MUCH WISDOM
TRAIL OF THE BURNED PEACH
TREES
ZENOBIA