La donna tra rappresentanza e rappresentazione nel diritto e nell’arte

[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 juridical
concept of female representation. The paper highlights a fil rouge that links all the
different topics covered: Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, the poetic controversies
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 women
from the legal professions, the elaboration of the italian legal category of infirmitas
sexus, the meaningful history of the constitutional creative process of the art. 51 cost. it.