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 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 wpengine | Sep 10, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nicole E. Cook, Project Coordinator for Academic Partnerships, Philadelphia Museum of Art Gesina ter Borch, Self-Portrait in a Cartouche Crowned with the arms of the Ter Borch family, 1659, with a poem by J.H. Roldanus. Source: Rijksmuseum Getting...
by wpengine | Aug 9, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Emma Steinkraus, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Hampden-Sydney College Two of my favorite seventeenth-century women artists, Giovanna Garzoni and Maria Sibylla Merian, were also excellent naturalists. As I combed through their paintings and prints...
