AURÉLIA DE SOUZA. Mulheres artistas em 1900 I Chapter by Sónia Duarte (CTC)

The book AURÉLIA DE SOUZA. Mulheres artistas em 1900 (ISBN: 978-989-35191-1-0 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.34619/6m02-4036) has just been published and includes a chapter dedicated to female painting and music by researcher Sónia Duarte (Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication). The launch will take place on 20 November at 6.30 pm (access link here).

This chapter deals with four women who, in the transition from the 19th century to the following century, that is, in the time of Aurélia de Souza (1866-1922), stood out as “sketchers and painters of other women, musicians and dancers”. The four painters are Emília dos Santos Braga (1867-1949), Zoé Batalha Reis (1867-1949), Laura Sauvinet Bandeira (1876-1953) and Sofia de Souza (1870-1960). Leonilda Moreira de Sá (1882-1963) and the Porto collection of female drawings at Casa do Largo da Paz are also mentioned, as well as some notes about the music iconography in the representations of Guilhermina Suggia (1885-1950), the first woman with an international solo career on the cello. Roughly speaking, women paint other women playing and tuning musical instruments, singing, and dancing, that is, mastering the precepts of music and dance. On the other hand, men depict them in front of their musical instruments or sheets of music, static, with the doubt hovering in the air as to whether they mastered them or whether they only appear to associate them with a passionate and socially expected erudition.

AURÉLIA DE SOUZA. Mulheres artistas em 1900 is a book published by IHA – Instituto de História da Arte of NOVA FCSH (which, like CESEM, is associated with IN2PAST) and by the Soares dos Reis National Museum. The book is organised by Raquel Henriques da Silva, Bruno Marques and Joana d’Oliva Monteiro. Click here to see it in open access.