The Thyssen - Bornemisza Museum in Madrid has given a new insight regarding the representation of woman in 18th Century Venetian paintings in an exhibition which ended on February 22nd 1998.
79 works produced by the best Venetian painters of the time, notably Francesco and Antonio Guardi, Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo, Giacomo Ceruti, Rosalba Carriera, Pietro Longhi, Giambattista Piazzetta and Jacopo Amigoni were being exhibited in order to underline how women were seen in the city of the Doges between 1710 and 1770.
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