Katy Hessel’s “The Story of Art Without Men” is a compendium of female artists from the 1500s to today. The Belgian painter Caterina van Hemessen’s “Self-Portrait,” 1548.Credit...Caterina van Hemessen ...
CHICAGO — The Impressionist artists working in France in the 1800s clearly liked women. While landscapes and still lifes studded their oeuvres, they turned repeatedly to the subjects of dancers, opera ...