by wpengine | Jul 5, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Cecilia Gamberini From 2 March 2021 to 25 July 2021, the rooms of Palazzo Reale in Milan are hosting an exhibition devoted to iconic Italian women artists of the Renaissance and Baroque: Le Signore dell’Arte. Storie di donne tra ’500...
by Erika Gaffney | May 17, 2021 | News/Blog
In a previous Art Herstory post, we highlighted one dozen women artists from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the time, we noted that the twelve painters and sculptors in that list represented only a small percentage of female makers of centuries...
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 Erika Gaffney | Mar 14, 2021 | News/Blog
On March 8, International Women’s Day, London-based art books publisher Lund Humphries and Getty Publications in Los Angeles announced a collaborative venture. The two art-book publishers are combining forces over “Illuminating Women Artists,” a new...
by Erika Gaffney | Mar 13, 2021 | News/Blog
Coinciding with International Women’s Day 2021, the Rijksmuseum puts works by women artists on permanent display in its most prominent gallery Gallery caption: Staff hang work by Judith Leyster, Gesina ter Borch, and Rachel Ruysch in the Rijksmuseum’s...
