by Erika Gaffney | Apr 18, 2021 | News/Blog
by wpengine | Apr 15, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Xavier F. Salomon, The Frick Collection An Anniversary April 15 marks the 264th anniversary of the death of the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757). Rosalba lived her entire life in a house on the Grand Canal, near the parish church...
by wpengine | Apr 11, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Jessica L. Fripp, Texas Christian University On the value of women In 1876, the heirs of the French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard donated two works, the Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie-Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de...
by wpengine | Mar 26, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Helen Draper, independent scholar and author Mary Beale, Self-portrait with husband Charles & son Bartholomew, c.1659–60, oil on canvas, Geffrye Museum. Detail, head of the artist. This week, in March 1633, clergyman John Cradock DD...
by wpengine | Mar 23, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University Why Bologna? The north Italian city of Bologna produced the largest and most successful group of women artists in early modern Italy. Bologna is the real protagonist of my new book, Women Artists, Their Patrons,...
by wpengine | Mar 19, 2021 | News/Blog
Blurbs compiled by Ceci Williams, Art Herstory Intern Here we list all the new publications about women artists that have come to our attention, published in the first quarter of this calendar year. Descriptions are drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If...
