Angèlica Justiniano: A Painter in Baroque Catalonia

Guest post by Mercè Valderrey, art historian, researcher, curator and independent art advisor Introduction In an article published in El Periódico on March 9, 2026, journalist Gemma Camps asked whether the Museum of the Baroque of Catalonia in Manresa held any work by...

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...