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 II: Institutions and the various contexts in which women struggled to gain acceptance within Spanish artistic culture in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, including academies, associations, competitions and specialised art publications.

Programme:

00:00 Start

00:00:20 Introduction. The absence or presence of women in the art collections of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Raquel Castellà, Museum Curator, and Montse Fernández-Esparrach, Art Historian; and Through the back door: women’s access to the MNAC collection. Francesc Quílez. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

00:25:01 The presence of works by women in the historical inventories of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (1804–1964). Myriam Ferreira. University of La Rioja.

00:40:43 Representations of images of women and their social role in the work of Lluïsa Vidal (1876–1918). Clàudia Gomes França. Federal Centre for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

00:49:17 Women in the circle of the Romero de Torres family. Fuensanta García. Art historian and museum curator.

01:13:23 The Royal Drawing Schools for girls of La Merced and Fuencarral. Francisco García Martín. PhD in Art History.

01:21:37 Rag-and-bone women, brokers and pawnbrokers in the nineteenth century: the sale of “art” in the feminine. Isabel Menéndez. Researcher.

01:35:51 The Lyceum Club of Madrid as an exhibition space: women’s exhibitions (1926–36). Mónica Monmeneu. PhD candidate, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

01:51:24  Female students of the Drawing and Ornament Schools of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid. Esperanza Navarrete. Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

02:12:51 Women in the Artistic and Literary Lyceum of Madrid. Aranzazú Pérez Sánchez. PhD in Art History. IES Beatriz Galindo, Madrid.

02:29:01 Trinidad Scholtz Hermensdorff, a female paradigm in cultural management. Eva Ramos. University of Málaga.

02:46:20 Dolores Gil and the first women photographers in Aragon. Carmen Agustín. University of Zaragoza.

03:10:57 Francisca Stuart Sindici, painter, aristocrat and suffragist. Gonzalo Redín. University of Alcalá.

03:27:53 Women in the organisation of the modern artistic system in Barcelona: the cases of Lluïsa Vidal, Laura Albéniz and Ángeles Santos Torroella. Vera Renau. Predoctoral researcher, University of Barcelona.

03:51:38 The so-called “amateur women painters”: the place of women in the National Fine Arts Exhibitions. Paloma Rodera. Antonio de Nebrija University, Madrid.

04:05:12 Muse, hostess and organiser: Adelia de Acevedo, Eugenio d’Ors and the role of a friend of the arts in the first third of the twentieth century. Ana Romero. Researcher.

04:24:45 Ladies, young ladies, lyceum members and artists in fin-de-siècle Madrid and the early twentieth century. Vanesa Villarejo Hervás. Art historian.

04:38:52 The artistic sphere and women in nineteenth-century Spain and the early twentieth century. Francisca Vives. University of the Basque Country.

04:55:35 One need only look at the cafés! Women artists in Madrid café gatherings during the 1920s and early 1930s. Mónica Vázquez. University of Zaragoza