Question

Griselda Pollock and Rozsika Parker authored a book playing on this term, drawing from a 1972 art exhibition which pointed out that there was no equivalent reverential term to describe women. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this two-word term categorizing great artists of the past, also used to describe printed images created before roughly the end of the 18th century. Auden claimed, “about suffering, [these people] were never wrong.”
ANSWER: Old Masters [accept Old Mistresses]
[10m] Old Mistresses discusses how this Swiss founding member of the Academy was not admired for her talent but “expected to be beautiful” as a female artist. This artist painted a self-portrait hesitating between painting and music.
ANSWER: Angelica Kauffman
[10h] Old Mistresses highlights that this artist, who painted an aged self-portrait holding an image of her sister, succeeded despite a lack of conventional beauty. This Venetian artist specialized in snuffbox miniatures and pastels.
ANSWER: Rosalba Carriera
<AY, Visual Fine Arts>

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GeorgetownGeorge Washington A010010
Maryland BMaryland A0000
Johns HopkinsGeorge Washington A1010020