Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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January 28, 2025

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January 28th, 7:00 p.m.
Assembly hall
Free admission until full capacity

In the first half of the 19th century, Europe was devastated by bourgeois revolutions fighting against absolute monarchies. At the same time, the Industrial Revolution was developing, bringing with it profound economic and social transformations. Art was also shaken by these changes and sought new forms of expression.

During the second half of the century, a series of artists and pictorial movements emerged that rejected academic conventions. Their reactions to the pictorial tradition that began in the Renaissance were diverse, such as Neoclassicism, Impressionism and Realism.

The family workshop was finally dissolved, access to the Academies was still forbidden to women, or very restricted, and it was the era of private art lessons for some young women belonging to the bourgeoisie or the aristocracy. Despite all these difficulties, some artists managed to work as painters and sculptors, becoming valued and famous.

In the last third of the 19th century, the situation changed; women were able to enter the Academies and exhibit in the Art Salons.

Mª Alicia Santiago Tamame has a degree in Art History, is a Professor of Social Sciences in Secondary Education and a Professor of the Master's Degree in Secondary School Teacher Training at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.