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Through religious paintings, portraiture, or genre paintings, women hold a prominent place in the art historical canon. The female figure was a popular choice throughout all artistic eras. Major examples include Titian’s “Venus of Urbino “during the renaissance, the neoclassical “Grand Odalisque” by Ingres, and Manet’s “Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe” during the impressionist period. While beautiful and influential, these paintings have been criticized for depicting women inauthentically and through a warped male gaze. In our contemporary era, female artists are filling in these gaps and depicting …