Iaia
Iaia of Cyzicus (
Most of her paintings are said to have been of women. Pliny attributes to her a large panel painting of an old woman and a self-portrait. She was said to have worked faster and painted better than her male competitors, Sopolis and Dionysius, which enabled her to earn more than them.[4]
Life
Born in Cyzicus,[5] Iaia was a famous painter and ivory carver. She probably came to Rome to meet the demand for art there in the late Roman Republic.[6] Iaia remained unmarried all her life.
Influence on culture
Iaia is one of several female artists of antiquity mentioned in
Iaia is a character in
The character of Julie Lambert, protagonist of the novel Shining Harmony (2017), and of the poetic anthology Living and Not Living (2018), both by Italian writer Sabrina Gatti, was inspired by Iaia. In the novel, Julie, a talented painter, sees in Iaia the artist to emulate, and dedicates to her a painting where she portrays the Roman painter, intent on painting in her atelier; while in "Living and not living", the young woman is completely identified with Iaia.
Iaia (as Lalla) is one of the names featured on Judy Chicago's Heritage Floor.[9]
Notes
- ISSN 1913-5416.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7876-4066-8.
- JSTOR 4130310.
- ^ Pliny, Natural History, 35.40
- ISBN 0-7876-4074-3. Archived from the originalon 2018-09-23.
- ^ "Painting, Roman". Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.).
- ISSN 2265-8777.
- ^ Borzello, Frances (1998). Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits. p. 42.
- ^ "Lalla". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
Judy Chicago (American, b. 1939). The Dinner Party (Heritage Floor; detail), 1974–79.
References
- Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya, ISBN 0-15-508315-5.
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 35.40,147.L
- Virginia Brown's translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Famous Women, pp 135 – 137; Harvard University Press, 2001; ISBN 0-674-01130-9
- Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976, pg. 23.
- Frasca-Rath, Anna: The Origin and Decay of Painting. Iaia, Dibutades and the Concept of ‚Women Art, in: Hans Christian Hönes & Anna Frasca-Rath (Hrsg.), Modern Lives, Modern Legends. Artist Anecdotes since the 18th century, Journal for Art Historiography, 23, 2020, S. 1-17. [1]