Captive Beauties: Depictions of Women in Late Imperial China –– Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/captive-beauties-depictions-of-women-in-late-imperial-china
December 14, 2019 – November 28, 2021 | Gallery 203 | Free Exhibition Beautiful yet lonely and melancholy—women from imperial China were often depicted in terms of their highly circumscribed lives, which were entirely dependent upon men. In some paintings, women engage in duties appropriate to their stations in life, according to patriarchal Confucian principles
But some artists hinted at suppressed urges and unacknowledged emotions, reflecting