On This Day Sheさんのイラストまとめ

In 1906, Paula Modersohn-Becker painted a series of nude self-portraits; it was 'a near-revolutionary act in the history of modernism'. Overlooked for many years, she is now recognised as an important figure in early modernist art. https://t.co/oUA6nsyFuE

#OTD in 2013, Pakistani architect and social activist Perween Rahman was killed by four gunmen, ending her 28-year-long fight for land & water rights for Pakistan's poor. Rahman had been a critic of the land mafias in Karachi and their political patrons. https://t.co/A0bLClmd8a

TODAY, #IWD2022, a statue—by @christinesculpt—is being unveiled in Woking of composer, conductor & author Dame Ethel Smyth, whose brilliant opus includes The March of the Women—the official suffragette anthem—composed in 1910, sung at rallies & in prison. https://t.co/GQM4kLvDbI

#OTD in 1975, Indian chemist Asima Chatterjee addressed the Indian Science Congress as its first female General President. Her most important research was on alkaloids used in chemotherapy. In her centenary year, she was a Google Doodle. https://t.co/RnDDOPDdqX #womeninSTEM

#OTD in 1788 it was a man (James Dore) who gave a sermon on the African slave trade: but it was radical publisher and campaigner Martha Gurney who made it a best-selling sensation. A powerful influencer, her London shop was a hub for abolitionists.
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#OTD in 1644 artist Plautilla Bricci was paid 30 scudi by Cardinal Barberini for two works—a St Francis & a still-life. She was also the architect of the Casa Benedetti 1663-65—& named as such in contracts—the first woman known as a professional architect. https://t.co/2KqAEX385N

#otd in 1892 US dancer Loie Fuller debuted her transformative & beguiling serpentine dance at Paris' Folies-Bergère. Performing for a record 300 nights, she became one of Europe's most renowned dancers - and held several patents related to stage lighting. https://t.co/Zj4p5vpGX5

In 1973, Tawhida Ben Cheikh, Tunisia's first female doctor & first woman to sit on the National Council of the Order of Physicians, opened the country's first family planning clinic. Now almost 50 percent of doctors in Tunisia are women. https://t.co/mdtxlbrx5p #WomenInMedicine

In 1934 US artist Helen Lundeberg published a manifesto for the New Classicism movement she founded with her husband. She conveyed her ideas by means of her painting Plant and Animal Analogies—now considered an iconic work in the history of Surrealism. https://t.co/ePm2v15Au1

Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes, the largest tribe in Britain, centred in what's now known as Yorkshire, was the first queen to rule part of Britain in her own right. A major player in the Roman invasion of 43 AD, she allied with Rome to preserve her tribe's independence.