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Roma Pittrice: Women Artists at Work in Rome Between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

by artherstory | Nov 25, 2024 | News/Blog

Guest post by Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian Finally. After the pioneering studies of Consuelo Lollobrigida and Sheila Barker and a few other specialists, mostly women (also including Lucia Tomasi Tongiorgi, Lucia Fois, and Anna Lisa Genovese),...

Carlotta Gargalli 1788–1840: “The Elisabetta Sirani of the Day”

by artherstory | Dec 16, 2023 | News/Blog

Guest post by Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian Finally, Italy also has a museum truly open to women artists: Museo Ottocento Bologna. It is a museum dedicated to Bolognese artists (men and women) of nineteenth and twentieth...

Judith’s Challenge, from Lavinia Fontana to Artemisia Gentileschi

by wpengine | Feb 9, 2022 | News/Blog

By Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the rediscovery of Caravaggio’s Judith and Holofernes, Palazzo Barberini is dedicating the exhibition Caravaggio and Artemisia: The Challenge of Judith (until...

Plautilla Bricci: A Painter & “Architettrice” in Seventeenth-century Rome

by wpengine | Nov 18, 2021 | News/Blog

Guest post by Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian Following the pioneering studies of Consuelo Lollobrigida, which culminated in the first monograph on Plautilla Bricci. Pictura et Architectura Celebris. The architect of the Roman...
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