Linford, SarahGianni, IlariaMerli, Ciera2024-10-222024-10-222023Merli, Ciera. "Antonietta Raphaël: Mysticism and Memor". Master's Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2023.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/568Master of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2023.This thesis investigates Lithuanian 20th-century artist Antonietta Raphaël’s painting Due Sorelle. By consulting with primary resources and the miniscule contemporary literature on her, this thesis explains her intersectional identity through the methodology of memory. This is done by identifying the date of the painting (1940) and the iconography of the women in the painting. Due Sorelle was created during the tumultuous interwar period in Italy and in Antonietta Raphaël’s life. Yet it is a significant example of Raphaël’s intentional iconographic memory and profound spiritual loss of a past life that could not be reclaimed after World War II. With Due Sorelle, she constructs an image of two Judaic characters, Lilith and Eve, the first women, mothers of demons and humanity, and the first two sinners of Judaism, who were ousted from Eden. She intuitively paints a resistance towards the regime by constructing a memory and identity that serves as a narration of her past and present life.32 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Antonietta Raphaël Mafai, 1895-1975Thesis