by wpengine | Feb 9, 2022 | News/Blog
By Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the rediscovery of Caravaggio’s Judith and Holofernes, Palazzo Barberini is dedicating the exhibition Caravaggio and Artemisia: The Challenge of Judith (until...
by wpengine | Jan 27, 2022 | News/Blog
A celebrated portraitist returns to Delft Guest post by Ien G.M. van der Pol, www.ienvanderpol.nl Thérèse Schwartze, Self-portrait, with black hat and glasses, 1917, paper, 55.1 × 47.4 cm; Rijksmuseum This exhibition of the work of a celebrated nineteenth-century...
by wpengine | Jan 18, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary Creed Fig. 1. Marie Laurencin, Self-Portrait, 1906. Colored pencil and pencil on notebook paper. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris In an attempt to tell a more inclusive story of modern art,...
by wpengine | Jan 11, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Stephanie Pearson, museums.love In two of the smaller rooms in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, some thirty paintings have been assembled into a stimulating special exhibition about the artist Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782), celebrating the 300th...
by wpengine | Jan 8, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Patricia Rocco, Hunter College, CUNY Although Lavinia Fontana and Elisabetta Sirani worked with paint rather than textiles, nevertheless their work intersected with Bologna’s thriving embroidery industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 31, 2021 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new books about women artists—from the past, and also from the present—that have come to our attention, published in the final quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
