Anastasia Bengoechea held up signs to protest sexual stereotyping at the Madrid museum. Anastasia Bengoechea at Museo del Prado in Madrid with Juan Carreño de Miranda portrait Queen Mariana of Austria with sign that translate to “not saints” (foto Anastasia Bengoechea) A feminist writer and cartoonist in Spain has caused a social-media sensation by sharing photos of Old Master paintings from the Museo del Prado (https://www.museodelprado.es/en/) ’s collection alongside her own hand-painted signs that declare the depicted women “not whores” and “not saints” as a protest against virgin-whore stereotyping. The artist, Anastasia Bengoechea, posed with her placards in front of Guido Reni (http://www.artnet.com/artists/guido-reni/) ’s painting of Cleopatra, in which a snake lunges at the Egyptian queen’s nipple, and Juan Carreño de Miranda’s portrait of a pale and placid-looking Queen Mariana of Austria (https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/queen-mariana-of-austria/678839c9-9eb1-47ee-a71f-163618263df3). The phrases were written in Spanish, ni putas and ni santas (the Spanish saying continues, solo mujeres). Bengoechea’s Instagram post, which assured the Prado it was “still my favorite place in Madrid,” helped “Cleopatra” make the top 20 trending topics in Spain. The artist, who goes by @monstruoespagueti (https://www.instagram.com/monstruoespagueti/)on social media, has received more than 14,000 likes on the images, which have also been turned into a … Meer lezen over Sarah Cascone – See Why One Feminist Artist’s Protest of Old Master Depictions of Women at the Prado Museum Went Instantly Viral