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  Exploring the Historical Imbalance in Artistic Representation                                              Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung. Author- Brian Hawkeswood. When one leafs through the annals of art history, the question arises almost immediately: Why, across centuries and continents, have so many of the “great” artists been men? Michelangelo , Rembrandt , Picasso , Van Gogh , Caravaggio —the canon, as it stands, seems built almost entirely by male hands. Is this an accident of genius? A reflection of some innate male proclivity toward vision and craft? Or is it, as many now argue, a consequence of deeply entrenched societal structures that long excluded women from the possibility of becoming artists at all? To understand why the face of art history has so often been male, we must first reckon with the conditions in which art was made, tau...