Abstract

[Women in art and law: image and representation] This paper investigates the normative role that the artistic, social and literary representation of women has had on the juridi-cal concept of female representation. The paper highlights a fil rouge that links all the different topics covered: Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, the poetic controver-sies between the poet Ecouchard Lebrun and the poetess Constance De Salm, the ban on women from representing the nude in fine arts academies, the exclusion of wom-en from the legal professions, the elaboration of the italian legal category of infirmi-tas sexus, the meaningful history of the constitutional creative process of the art. 51 cost. it.