Trailblazing Women of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Throughout history, there have been trailblazing women—courageous path-breakers who make themselves heard. And the Met’s walls are full of them, as you’ll find out on this tour!

It might seem that the women in the Met are mostly Virgin Marys or bathing beauties. In fact, however, there are powerful and ambitious—even intimidating—women hidden throughout the collection.

From an entire gallery dedicated to a female Pharaoh to paintings by and of famous suffragettes, the Met has a surprisingly rich collection of women who ruled, frightened, patronized, and politicked—in short, role models for today’s liberated woman.

So come with Professor Andrew Lear on this fun and informative virtual tour of the Met, and learn about:

• the queen who started Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
• the fertility goddess who preceded Zeus in the Greek world
• the female monsters of Ancient Greek mythology
• the first famous woman painter
• Marie Antoinette’s “marketing director”
• an 18th century woman scientist
• the courtesan who stared down the Jacobins of Revolutionary France
• the feminism of Mary Cassatt’s paintings
• the Met’s great suffragette donor
• and much more

Come learn about woman of the past who persisted—and triumphed—on the  Trailblazing Women of the Metropolitan tour!