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Women and painters: they are the protagonists of the exhibition set up at the Museum of Rome, complete with names and surnames on which the dust of history had settled, which recent studies want to remove. The portrait of the enigmatic artist painted by Pietro Paolini in the first decades of the 17th century welcomes the visitor at the entrance to the exhibition. No one can say who owns the face of this young still life painter who intensely observes the viewer with her gaze, proudly showing the tools of the trade. The exhibition focuses on the works of female artists who between the 16th and 19th centuries chose Rome as a place of study and work, where they struggled to gain access to training and the most important institutions of the city, such as the Accademia di San Luca and the Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. Despite the many clichés, a rich, varied and absolutely artistically important production emerges. A total of 130 works by 56 artists such as Maria Felice Tibaldi Subleyras, Angelika Kaufmann, Laura Piranesi, Marianna Candidi Dionigi, Louise Seidler and Emma Gaggiotti, whose works were mostly kept in the warehouses, and others active in the city, such as Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi and Giovanna Garzoni to name the most famous.