by wpengine | Jan 8, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Patricia Rocco, Hunter College, CUNY Although Lavinia Fontana and Elisabetta Sirani worked with paint rather than textiles, nevertheless their work intersected with Bologna’s thriving embroidery industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth...
by wpengine | Oct 19, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Aoife Brady, National Gallery of Ireland In 1872, just eight years after first opening its doors, the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) purchased The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by...
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 wpengine | Mar 23, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University Why Bologna? The north Italian city of Bologna produced the largest and most successful group of women artists in early modern Italy. Bologna is the real protagonist of my new book, Women Artists, Their Patrons,...
by wpengine | Nov 2, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Adelina Modesti, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Fig. 1. Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Painting, signed and dated “ELISAB.TA SIRANI F. 1658.” Moscow, Pushkin Museum. Painted for “Signor Cavazza, notary of the bishopric.”...
