by artherstory | Mar 28, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alessia Motti, Art History student, La Sapienza University of Rome Suor Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) was a nun-artist in the convent of Santa Caterina in Cafaggio. She is one of the few female artists mentioned in Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists....
by artherstory | Mar 28, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Haley S. Pierce, Assistant Curator of European Art, Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, February 14–June 15, 2025. Photo by Shanti Knight. ...
by artherstory | Feb 25, 2025 | News/Blog
Meeting Spain’s First Professional Female Sculptor Guest post by Olivia Turner, Curatorial Assistant, Meadows Museum, Dallas Title treatment for Luisa Roldán: Escultora Real. Author photo. Luisa Roldán in the Seventeenth Century Luisa Roldán, commonly known...
by artherstory | Feb 20, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sivan Maoz, MA Graduate, The Warburg Institute, London The biblical story of Judith recounts how a young Jewish widow saved her people by using her wit and charm to behead the Assyrian general Holofernes. Central to this narrative is Judith’s...
by artherstory | Feb 18, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alice M. Rudy Price, Independent scholar In late 2024, two of Copenhagen’s important museums offered three exciting exhibitions that celebrated the art, modernity, and praxis of a pioneering Nordic women artists in the late nineteenth to early...