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.