The aim is to bring out a different narrative, a different facet of art history, in which women artists of the Renaissance, Baroque or the modern period gain a voice of their own, beyond invisibilization, exoticization, pathologization and demonization, even trans or racialized women, even those viewed with suspicion by art historians who have wrongly attributed their work to their husbands, sons or fathers who were themselves artists.

The project will recollect the achievements and courage of artists such as Lili Elbe, a Danish painter, trans woman and one of the first people to benefit from gender reassignment surgery, Augusta Savage, an African-American sculptor who fought for equal rights for artists of colour after she was rejected from the Fontainebleau summer art school on the grounds that her presence would cause inconvenience to other students, or Lavinia Fontana, the first Renaissance artist to paint female nudes after the model, or Artemisia Gentileschi, who refused to let her career be defined by sexual abuse, public opprobrium and defamation and painted dynamic Baroque scenes in which the female figure always played the leading role rather than victim.