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Women play a very important role in the creation of art from the seventeenth century to the present twentieth century. Women were seen in many different ways during these centuries ranging from sex symbols all the way to lovable mothers and wives. Many artists ....

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.... Bergman-Carton. First, the article "Judith Leyster's Proposition - Between Virtue and Vice" by Frima Fox Hofrichter talks mainly about the sexual proposition of a man towards a woman during the seventeenth century. The painting "The Proposition" represents an indecent proposal towards a woman and her reaction to this indecent proposal. During this century, there was a resurgence of prostitution throughout European countries. The women represented in many paintings were thought of as willing participants to the offering of prostitution. In Leyster's painting "The Proposition", she tries to give a totally different perspective of women's views d ....