by wpengine | Oct 23, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Angela Oberer Art historians have documented the growing market of eager art lovers and collectors seeking to buy sensually and erotically charged images by the end of the seventeenth century. Still, it remains a somewhat puzzling fact that, as a woman...
by wpengine | Sep 8, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Cathy Hall-van den Elsen The Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652–1706) was recognised in her lifetime as an artist of considerable talent. Luisa was born in Seville, the daughter of Pedro Roldán, a prominent sculptor. Early in her career she carved...
by wpengine | Aug 25, 2020 | News/Blog
Reflections on the occasion of her birthday, 25th August Guest post by Victoria Carruthers, the Australian Catholic University On the opening page of her first memoir, entitled Birthday (1986), American artist Dorothea Tanning tells us that “the beginning is...
by wpengine | Aug 24, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Elizabeth Lev, Duquesne in Rome Caravaggio is now a household name; sometimes it seems that he was the sole artistic genus of the turn of the seventeenth century. As with any superstar player, though, there were dozens of hungry talents nipping at his...
by wpengine | Aug 4, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Julia Westerman, art and fashion historian “Clothes express the epoch; that is Madame Paquin’s dictum.” —Charles Dawbarn, 1915 Henri Gervex, Five Hours at Paquin, 1906. Private collection; source, Wikimedia Commons. Introducing Jeanne...
