by Erika Gaffney | Nov 14, 2019 | News/Blog
Art Herstory Christmas card, featuring The Nativity of Christ, 1620-25, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia. Art Herstory announces its first Christmas card, which features a Nativity by Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676). Born Theodora Caccia, Suor Orsola Maddalena was a nun...
by artherstory | Nov 10, 2019 | News/Blog
Thoughts on the marquee event of the Museo del Prado’s 200th-anniversary celebration Guest post by Natasha Moura, Madrid-based art blogger, educator, writer and cultural manager The exhibition A Tale of Two Women Painters just opened at the Museo del Prado in...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 30, 2019 | News/Blog
Vase of Flowers, n.d., by Mary Moser. Source, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK. When Britain’s Royal Academy was founded in 1769, there were two women among the thirty-six founding members—Angelica Kauffman (also known as Maria Anna Angelika...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 8, 2019 | News/Blog
A new show opens this week, featuring works by highly successful female artists in the 17th- and early 18th-century Netherlands A Still Life of Lilies, Roses, Iris, Pansies, Columbine, Love-in-a-Mist, Larkspur & other Flowers in a Glass Vase on a Table Top,...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 5, 2019 | News/Blog
View of the Princeton University Art Museum Store; source, PUAM website. We are delighted to have Art Herstory represented at the Princeton University Art Museum Store. When you visit the Princeton campus, please make it a point to stop by this fine museum. While you...
by wpengine | Sep 17, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paula Butterfield, author of La Luministe and other works of historical fiction Berthe Morisot, Woman at Her Toilette, 1875/80. Art Institute of Chicago. Years after their brief affair, musician Evans Herman wrote a nostalgic poem for Joan...
