by wpengine | Mar 9, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kathleen G. Arthur, Professor Emerita, James Madison University Caterina Vigri (1413–1463) is the best-known Italian convent artist among a half-dozen fifteenth-century examples. On her saint’s day, March 9, we remember her accomplishments as a...
by wpengine | Feb 11, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Anastazja Buttitta, Curator, the U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Jerusalem Poster for Warp and Weft, an exhibition presented at the U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art from July 22, 2019 to January 20, 2020. The life of Jewish women in Italy...
by wpengine | Feb 6, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Quentin Buvelot, Senior Curator, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands In 2012, the Mauritshuis in The Hague managed to acquire a particularly appealing painting by Clara Peeters, Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels (Fig. 1). Fig. 1,...
by wpengine | Jan 7, 2020 | News/Blog
CODART votes the Toledo Museum of Art’s painting into its new Canon Guest post by Lawrence W. Nichols, Senior Curator, the Toledo Museum of Art Lawrence W. Nichols with Floral Still Life, 1726, by Rachel Ruysch. Toledo Museum of Art. Against a dark background,...
by wpengine | Dec 12, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Carol M. Cram, Founder, Art in Fiction The Sisters, 1869, by Berthe Morisot. Held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Women have painted for centuries, so why don’t we know more about history’s female artists? Fortunately, several major...
