Where are all the female artists

Academies banned women from life-drawing classes because studying the nude model was considered improper for women to view, even though it was central to serious art training. Since mastery of the nude underpinned history painting, the top-ranked genre of the time, this exclusion cut women off from the training and prizes needed to build a major reputation.

Yes, some female artists adopted male or gender-neutral names so their work would be taken seriously and sold at fair prices. Signed work by a man was often valued more highly and judged without the assumption that a woman could not have painted it, so a pseudonym let buyers and critics judge the work on its own merit.

Yes, museums still show far more work by men than by women, even in collections built in recent decades. Despite growing public attention to individual women artists, acquisitions and exhibitions have not caught up with that interest, so most permanent collections remain dominated by male names.

Yes, finishing a lesson on Nibble earns you a completion certificate you can save or share. It marks the specific lesson you studied, so it works well as a quick record of what you covered rather than a broad credential.