Along with the Metropolitan, the MFA Boston is America's other great encyclopedic art museum. It's smaller (what isn't?) but an amazing, absolutely first-rate collection, and like the Met, it is a great museum for women's issues. On this tour, we will see:
- the dangerous women of Greek mythology
- prostitution in ancient Athens and in Golden Age Holland
- a fascinating, potentially feminist statue from the Renaissance
- women's fashions, from Imperial Roman hairdos, to Renaissance hoop skirts, to the bustle of one of Renoir's mistresses
- the trans woman at the center of one of the most famous paintings on earth
- works by women artists from the Renaissance to the 20th century
and much more!
Don't miss a chance to explore the women's side of this fantastic art museum!