The Women Artists of Bologna #223076

Every biography is like a coin with two faces. The one is stamped with an image and superscription, the other with a coat-of-arms, a device, an allegory. The one relates to the individual, the other to his environ ment Sometimes the obverse, sometimes the reverse is the clearer and more interesting. Sometimes both are blurred, and can be deciphered only by comparison with other coins of the period.