by wpengine | Aug 24, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Elizabeth Lev, Duquesne in Rome Caravaggio is now a household name; sometimes it seems that he was the sole artistic genus of the turn of the seventeenth century. As with any superstar player, though, there were dozens of hungry talents nipping at his...
by wpengine | Aug 4, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Julia Westerman, art and fashion historian “Clothes express the epoch; that is Madame Paquin’s dictum.” —Charles Dawbarn, 1915 Henri Gervex, Five Hours at Paquin, 1906. Private collection; source, Wikimedia Commons. Introducing Jeanne...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 29, 2020 | News/Blog
This year, Art Herstory offers a new Christmas card design. The new card features Adoration of the Magi, a painting by seventeenth-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c.1654). Art Herstory’s 2020 Christmas card: Adoration of the Magi, by Artemisia...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 28, 2020 | News/Blog
The first half-dozen books in the series Illuminating Women Artists, published by London-based art books publisher Lund Humphries, are officially contracted! Draft cover for Luisa Roldán, the inaugural volume in the series “Illuminating Women Artists,”...
by wpengine | Jul 10, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sara Matthews-Grieco, Syracuse University in Florence This guest post reviews the recent art exhibition, curated by Dr. Sheila Barker, presented by the Uffizi Galleries at Andito degli Angiolini, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy, 28 May–28 June 2020...
by wpengine | Jun 30, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Georgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library (Emerita) The Franco-Scottish calligrapher Esther Inglis (c.1569–1624) is known for her jewel-like manuscripts rendered in meticulous black and white line or in color. But she also created the earliest known...