Honored with a place setting in Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party

In March 1974, artist Judy Chicago unveiled her landmark feminist installation The Dinner Party, which later found a permanent home at the Brooklyn Museum. The artwork features a triangular table with 39 elaborate place settings, each honoring a significant historical or mythical woman, alongside the names of 999 additional women inscribed on the floor beneath.

Christine de Pizan was honored with one of these place settings, celebrated as a medieval writer and historiographer who advocated for women's equality centuries before the modern feminist movement. The accompanying interpretive materials explicitly cite her as the first woman in France, and possibly Europe, to earn a living solely by writing — a claim that has become central to her modern historical reputation.

This recognition, arriving over five centuries after her death, exemplifies Christine's rediscovery and elevation by 20th-century feminist scholars and artists as a foundational figure in women's intellectual history. The Dinner Party itself became one of the most significant works of feminist art of the era, and its inclusion of Christine de Pizan helped introduce her to broader popular audiences beyond specialist medieval scholarship.

Her place in this canonical feminist artwork solidified her legacy as not merely a historical curiosity but as a foundational figure whose arguments about women's capability and dignity resonated directly with 20th-century feminist concerns.