by wpengine | Apr 26, 2021 | News/Blog
Theme: Women in the Arts, Architecture & Literature. Heritage, Legacy & Digital Perspectives. Organizers: Drs. Consuelo Lollobrigida (University of Arkansas-Rome Center) & Carla Rossi (University of Zurich, Research Centre for European Philological...
by wpengine | Apr 25, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Suzanne M. Scanlan, Rhode Island School of Design A yellowing, jagged-edged drawing simply titled “Sally,” by the American artist Esther Pressoir, gives us an intimate view of an unguarded moment. Perched on the arm of a wood-framed chair, the eponymous...
by artherstory | Apr 20, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Jacqueline Thalmann, Christ Church, Oxford I recently wrote an Art Herstory guest post about two drawings by Elisabetta Sirani—a Self-Portrait and a Head of a Madonna. This took me back to the fascinating subject of self-portraiture,...
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...
