Emerging from Silence: Mughal Painter Sahifa Banu

Guest post by Gurpreet Sihat, art writer The history of Mughal painting is usually told through the names of great male artists. But look closer, and a small group of women emerge from the spaces between them. The seventeenth-century Muraqqa-e-Gulshan, an imperial...

Women’s Depictions of Midwives in Early Modern Art

Guest post by Jane Salvage, nurse, activist and author Midwives in art and legend Giotto’s fresco of Jesus’ birth is a Christmas card favorite. All the familiar figures are there. But have you ever noticed the two women bathing and swaddling the baby? They are...

The Possibility of Michaelina Wautier

Thoughts on Michaelina Wautier: Painter at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna Guest post by Allison van den Hoek, author of INDELICATE: Michaelina Wautier’s Untold Story Within these walls covered with works by Michaelina Wautier, “the greatest artistic...