Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss has come to embody love and romanticism. It depicts an intimate moment between a man and woman; two lovers suspended in time within a brilliant gold background, and a kiss being bestowed upon the cheek of a woman. 

What many viewers may not know is that the woman in Klimt’s wondrous work is in fact a real woman from history, with her own name and story to share. 

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Emilie Flöge, a Vienese fashion designer, independent business woman, forward thinking creative, and the most important person in Gustav Klimt’s life.

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Olympia is now celebrated as the first modernist painting. However it was not just Manet’s artistic innovation, but the presence of two identifiable women; one of the streets, and one of a newly emerging black working-class community, that made Olympia one of the most earth-shattering works ever to be created.

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Victorine Meurent and Laure; the two superstars of Olympia.

Victorine was not just an artist’s model, she was also a musician, and an established painter herself, who showed her work at the Salon six times.

Painted just 15 years after the abolition of territorial slavery, Laure represented a pioneering age of Paris, in which newly freed black members of society were becoming an integral part of the working class. 

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Listen to Part Two of ArtMuse's episode on Lisa Gherardini, aka the Mona Lisa.

In Part Two, we continue Lisa’s story, and together examine the Mona Lisa from a new perspective: through the eyes of Lisa Gherardini herself. 

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Arguably the world’s most famous work of art, thousands of viewers pour into the Louvre everyday to catch a glimpse of the Mona Lisa. While her image is universally recognizable, the woman behind Leonardo Da Vinci’s celebrated portrait has been largely forgotten.

Who was the Mona Lisa?

Listen to Part One of ArtMuse’s Two Part episode on Lisa Gheradini, a tried and true Florentine noblewoman living through the peak of the Italian Renaissance. Her life’s story includes romance, painful loss, scandal, mystery, and political upheaval. But more than anything else, it is the story of a convivial, courageous and independent woman, who mothered children, weathered immense losses, and lived her life out with nobility and honor. 

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Check out our trailer for Season 01 of ArtMuse.

ArtMuse aims to reshape the ways in which we interpret well-known works of art by paying dues to the women whose images have been immortalized but whose names and stories have been wrongfully overlooked. Each episode will focus our attention on the female muse, sharing their important lives and legacy.

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Today’s episode was written by host Grace Anna.

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