by wpengine | Dec 1, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kathleen E. Kennedy, Associate Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol Portrait miniature, 1534, by Hans Holbein; may be Susanna Horenbout (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; source, Wikipedia) Susanna Horenbout (c. 1500–c. 1554)...
by wpengine | Nov 25, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Angela Ghirardi, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Bologna until 2018 Suor Orsola Maddalena Caccia—or simply Sister Orsola, as she signs herself in one instance, in the 1648 altarpiece discussed below—was an Ursuline nun. She...
by wpengine | Nov 16, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ann Golob, Researcher, Advancing Women Artists The eighteenth century was a time of tremendous change in Florence, Italy. Politically, the Medici era was coming to an end and the basic infrastructure of the city was in a state of decline. Florence—like...
by wpengine | Sep 17, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paula Butterfield, author of La Luministe and other works of historical fiction Berthe Morisot, Woman at Her Toilette, 1875/80. Art Institute of Chicago. Years after their brief affair, musician Evans Herman wrote a nostalgic poem for Joan...
by wpengine | Sep 10, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nicole E. Cook, Project Coordinator for Academic Partnerships, Philadelphia Museum of Art Gesina ter Borch, Self-Portrait in a Cartouche Crowned with the arms of the Ter Borch family, 1659, with a poem by J.H. Roldanus. Source: Rijksmuseum Getting...
