Both the brush and the paints, and love. Women's destinies in art.

The book by Irina Opimakh, a publisher, translator, and journalist, is a collection of stories about female artists who, despite the social barriers accompanying women's lives throughout history and in all countries, have earned a worthy place in the history of art. These vibrant, talented ladies have proven that they can create beauty just as well as men. The heroines of the book include the medieval nun Hildegard of Bingen, Michelangelo's student Sofonisba Anguissola, Goethe's friend Angelica Kauffman, the Impressionist Mary Cassatt, the animal painter Rosa Bonheur, the legendary Frida Kahlo, the wife of Jackson Pollock and a remarkable artist in her own right, Lee Krasner, and the American Georgia O'Keeffe, famous for her incredible flowers, among many other well-known female artists. What unites them is that they all dedicated their lives to art.