by wpengine | Feb 8, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nina Reid, MA student of Art History, University of Amsterdam Today marks the 255-year anniversary of the death of flower painter Catharina Backer (Amsterdam 1689–Leiden 1766). She grew up surrounded by her father’s great art collection and was spoon-fed...
by wpengine | Jan 26, 2021 | News/Blog
Maria Sibylla Merian’s Artistic Entomology Guest post by Kay Etheridge, Gettysburg College; with translations from German by Michael Ritterson Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian at 32, 1679, attributed to Jacob Marrel. Kunstmuseum, Basel....
by Erika Gaffney | Jan 19, 2021 | News/Blog
Fruit and Flowers, c. 1630, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Orsola Maddalena Caccia is now at the Met! The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired three works by the seventeenth-century Italian artist-nun. Two of the paintings are still...
by wpengine | Jan 5, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Lisa Kirch, University of North Alabama Figure 1. Kitten’s Game, by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, c. 1860–78, oil on panel, 32.8 x 45.2 cm. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. Introduction: Following Women Artists across the Year Its tip vermilion, a cigar glows...
by wpengine | Dec 21, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kelsey Brosnan, PhD in Art History, Rutgers University On December 12, 2020, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its European Paintings galleries, largely closed to the public for the past two years. One of the newly reinstalled spaces...
by wpengine | Dec 18, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paris A. Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows In July 2020, an oil painting appeared on the art market that had long been thought lost (fig. 1). A medium-sized canvas, 111 x 145 centimeters (3.6 x 4.7 feet), it depicted a sinuous woman in white,...
