Just last week the Wall Street Journal published an article about hobbies and diversions and referenced Sofonisba’s Chess Game painted in 1555. WSJ spoke of the hobbies that entertained the nobility. What Sofonisba enthusiasts see in the painting is the ingenuity of her work and the subversive messages of female power embedded in the chess game they play and the facial expressions they make. This was not an image of mere diversion. It was feminist enlightenment, 500 years before the me-too movement. Chapter 4, Chess Game, Cremona 1555, Lady in Ermine: The Story of a Woman Who Painted the Renaissance.
Sofonisba was not shallow. Nor are her enthusiasts.
Lady In Ermine: The Story of A Woman Who Painted The Renaissance 
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I read this article with great interest and the description of this beautiful painting give some insight of the principal character and Sofonisba
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