Luisa Roldán: Escultora Real Review

Meeting Spain’s First Professional Female Sculptor Guest post by Olivia Turner, curatorial assistant, Meadows Museum, Dallas Title treatment for Luisa Roldán: Escultora Real. Author photo.  Luisa Roldán in the Seventeenth Century Luisa Roldán, commonly...

Rachel Ruysch at Munich’s Alte Pinakothek

by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Outdoor signage at Alte Pinakothek, Munich, for Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art. Author photo. The world has waited a very long time—300 years, give or take—for the first monographic exhibition of the Amsterdam-based flower...

Discovering Early Modern Women Artists in Iberia

Guest post by Cathy Hall-van den Elsen, Independent scholar Researching the life and work of the Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán has been a lifelong endeavor. In 2020, as Covid set in and I waited for the publication of my book Luisa Roldán, I wondered about other...