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The Dinner Party is a multimedia sculptural artwork by American artist Judy Chicago.

Description
The Dinner Party consists of a large open three-sided table (48 x 48 x 3 ft.) covered with white tablecloths and is set with thirty-nine place settings, thirteen on each side. Each place setting commemorates a goddess, historical or importance woman with a handmade plate and placemat. The table rests on a large porcelain floor consisting of 2,304 handcast, gilded and lustered tiles. The tiles have the names of 999 other important women inscribed on them. The tiled floor is called the Heritage Floor.

Women represented in The Dinner Party
The 39 women with places at the table are:

Wing I: From Prehistory to the Roman Empire 1. Primordial Goddess 2. Fertility goddess 3. Ishtar 4. Kali 5. Snake Goddess 6. Sophia 7. Amazon 8. Hatshepsut 9. Judith 10. Sappho 11. Aspasia 12. Boudica 13. Hypatia

Wing II: From the Beginnings of Christianity to the Reformation 14. Marcella 15. Saint Bridget 16. Theodora of Byzantium 17. Hrosvitha 18. Trotula of Salerno 19. Eleanor of Aquitaine 20. Hildegard of Bingen 21. Petronilla de Meath 22. Christine de Pisan 23. Isabella d'Este 24. Elizabeth I of England 25. Artemisia Gentileschi 26. Anna van Schurman

Wing III: From the American to the Women's Revolution 27. Anne Hutchinson 28. Sacajawea 29. Caroline Herschel 30. Mary Wollstonecraft 31. Sojourner Truth 32. Susan B. Anthony 33. Elizabeth Blackwell 34. Emily Dickinson 35. Ethel Smyth 36. Margaret Sanger 37. Natalie Barney 38. Virginia Woolf 39. Georgia O'Keeffe

The Heritage Floor consists of 999 names of women, which Chicago grouped together based on themes related to the 39 placed women. For a detailed list of names please see List of names in the Heritage Floor.

History
The Dinner Party formed out of Judy Chicago's experiments with creating abstract portraits of historical women, using sprayed acrylic paint on canvas. She decided to make the works more