The Story of Women and Art

The Story of Women and Art
1556 self-portrait of Sofonisba Anguissola, featured in The Story of Women and Art.
Genre	Art documentary
Presented by	Professor Amanda Vickery
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	3
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Original release	May 2014
External links
Website

The Story of Women and Art is a television documentary series, consisting of three one-hour episodes, on the history of women artists in Europe from the Renaissance onwards, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in May 2014. The series is presented by Professor Amanda Vickery.

Artists featured include Properzia de' Rossi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Anne Seymour Damer, Angelica Kauffman, and the 17th-century Dutch paper cutter Joanna Koerten. Episode 3 covered Lady Butler, Berthe Morisot, Gertrude Jekyll, Karin Larsson, Madeleine Vionnet, and Georgia O'Keefe. The programme was well received by some critics, but criticized by others.