This panel forms part of the Congress A Century’s Worth of Shooting Stars, held on 22, 23 and 24 February 2021. Organised by the Museo del Prado, the Congress aims to review the role played by women within the various artistic structures from the advent of the constitutional regime in the early nineteenth century to the end of the reign of Alfonso XIII, in the early decades of the twentieth century, through a multifaceted perspective capable of encompassing their diverse positions. Invited by men to participate in a system not designed for them—in which women artists were regarded as remarkable exceptions—women shone briefly, only to fade thereafter from the narrative that the bourgeoisie shaped to suit its own worldview, and which we have conventionally, and rather neutrally, termed the History of Art.

Panel I: Underlying ideological issues shaping the culture of the period in relation to women and the arts, from the perspectives of thought, criticism and morality.

Programme

00:00 Start

00:00:24 The genres of power: legitimising the monarchy of Isabella II (1833–1868) through the visual arts and its parallel with Isabella I of Castile. Álvaro Cánovas. Autonomous University of Madrid.

00:15:55 Exhibition of portraits of Spanish women painted by Spanish artists before 1850: a study from the sociology of art. Georgina Driéguez. Independent researcher.

00:34:21 The dance of Salome: from the iconography of women’s power to the nineteenth-century femme fatale. Emma Trinidad. Independent researcher.

00:49:12 The literary image of the artist and women writers: Emilia Pardo Bazán, Sara Grand and Sigrid Undset. Mª Dolores Fernández Martínez. Complutense University of Madrid.

01:07:40 Rare flowers: art and politics of representation in scientific discourse. Elisa Garrido. Autonomous University of Madrid.

01:27:27 The beautiful dead woman: cultural issues surrounding the female body in art from the nineteenth century onwards. Esther González-Gea. Universitat de València

01:43:45 Tasks proper to their sex: embroidery and female education in nineteenth-century Spain, between domesticity and professionalisation. Clara Hernández. Camilo José Cela University, Madrid.

01:57:53 The exaltation of identity through women: the funerary monument to the Heroines of Santa Bárbara. Jonathan Jair López. Complutense University of Madrid.

02:11:25 The critical reception of women painters in the National Fine Arts Exhibitions of the nineteenth century. Fátima Marín. Independent researcher.

02:27:48 Hysteria and nationalism in Doña Juana la Loca, by Pradilla. Eduardo Muñoz. Banco de España Fellowship at the Museo Nacional del Prado.

02:40:32 Women and photography in nineteenth-century Spain: beyond art. Stephany Onfray. PhD candidate, Complutense University of Madrid.

02:57:09 Women sculptors in Paris, 1889–1929: questions of visibility. Professional careers, bronze editions and the commercial dimension of their work. Julio Plaza. Ulpiano Checa Museum, Colmenar de Oreja, Madrid.