by wpengine | Nov 2, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Adelina Modesti, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Fig. 1. Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Painting, signed and dated “ELISAB.TA SIRANI F. 1658.” Moscow, Pushkin Museum. Painted for “Signor Cavazza, notary of the bishopric.”...
by wpengine | Oct 27, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sheila McTighe, The Courtauld Institute of Art Threatened by pandemic closure but rescued to great acclaim, this exhibition of Artemisia Gentileschi’s work promises to be a turning point in the appreciation of early modern women artists. How will it...
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 Erika Gaffney | Sep 22, 2020 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new books about women artists that have come to our attention, published in the third quarter of this calendar year. Descriptions are drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other titles that should be on this list, please...
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...
