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Jill Burke

Jill Burke

Historian

Jun 15, 2026

43:08
Yeah.
43:10
I mean, yeah, this is very much the story in the history of depictions of women in both art and literature until very recently.
43:21
So a lot of these images of women, and these are really fascinating.
43:24
I'm just so interested in these questions that are difficult to answer, like the relationship between representations of women and women's reality and how art mediates those questions.
43:38
So one of the things that I was interested in my book is how these ideals of women's bodies related to the way that women understood their own bodies.
43:51
You know, these representations which are often again, like with the images of men, very closely related to classical sculpture.
43:58
So you see on the slide the image by Sebastiano del Puyombo, which is from the St Agatha painting that I talked about earlier.

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53:42
So how did that unfold for you?

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