by wpengine | May 6, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Consuelo Lollobrigida, University of Arkansas Rome Center Inside the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, in Rome, there is a beautiful baroque chapel created by Plautilla Bricci, the only woman architect of early modernity. Plautilla’s...
by wpengine | Feb 6, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Quentin Buvelot, Senior Curator, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands In 2012, the Mauritshuis in The Hague managed to acquire a particularly appealing painting by Clara Peeters, Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels (Fig. 1). Fig. 1,...
by wpengine | Jan 7, 2020 | News/Blog
CODART votes the Toledo Museum of Art’s painting into its new Canon Guest post by Lawrence W. Nichols, Senior Curator, the Toledo Museum of Art Lawrence W. Nichols with Floral Still Life, 1726, by Rachel Ruysch. Toledo Museum of Art. Against a dark background,...
by wpengine | Nov 25, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Angela Ghirardi, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Bologna until 2018 Suor Orsola Maddalena Caccia—or simply Sister Orsola, as she signs herself in one instance, in the 1648 altarpiece discussed below—was an Ursuline nun. She...
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...
