by artherstory | Sep 15, 2026 | News/Blog
Guest post by C.J. Denton, author of La Pittura There is a version of Artemisia Gentileschi that has become very familiar. She is young. She has survived a brutal assault and the arguably crueler ordeal of a public trial. She paints Judith leaning over Holofernes,...
by artherstory | Aug 13, 2026 | News/Blog
Guest post by Erich Reich, Studierenden-Kunstmarkt Paula Modersohn-Becker was born in Dresden on February 8, 1876. This year the art world celebrates her 150th birthday, and she has earned the party. In a career of barely a decade she produced more than 700 paintings...
by artherstory | Jun 11, 2026 | News/Blog
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...
by artherstory | Apr 11, 2026 | News/Blog
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...
by artherstory | Apr 3, 2026 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kristin Bluemel, Monmouth University Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980) is one of twentieth-century Britain’s most reclusive and most impactful woman artists. She specialized in the print art of wood engraving, which she joined to the commercial business of...
