“Woman is the Other; she is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her ” said Simone de Beauvoir, in “The Second Sex”. Throughout history, women’s stories have been told with very apparent undertones of insignificance, women’s place and role as historical figures has always been demerited in some way or another, by simply being reduced to placeholders for male achievement. The purposeful ignoring of women as a whole, and to disregard them of any actual significance has opened up a space and initiated a pattern of patriarchal storytelling, furtherly embedding sexism into our culture, and more importantly history.

This cycle of erasure continues to haunt our culture and can be seen through the misattribution of accomplishments, as was the case for Sofonisba Anguissola, one of the most astonishing Italian renaissance painters whose work got …
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