by wpengine | Mar 2, 2021 | News/Blog
Two Generations of Bolognese Women Artists in the Museum Collection Guest post by Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Smith College Museum of Art Between 2019 and 2020, the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) acquired works by two Bolognese artists,...
by wpengine | Feb 23, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Maryse Dekker, student of art history, the University of Amsterdam As the first female student of the Netherlands, Anna Maria van Schurman built quite a reputation as an intellectual in the seventeenth century. She knew multiple ancient and modern...
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 | Dec 5, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Catherine Powell, University of Texas at Austin & Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society Figure 1. Alida Withoos, Plant Datura Fastuosa Lin., 1670–1715, brush, 33.2 × 22.5 cm. Rijksmuseum. Alida Withoos thrived as still life...
