Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Ahead of her Time: Pioneering Women from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century", at Robilant+Voena, New York (5 December 2023 - 10 February 2024). The women painters represented in the present volume are - each in her own way - extraordinary women who have affected the course of art history not only stylistically, but also socially and in terms of the emancipation of the female condition, transcending the expectations of their era.