by Erika Gaffney | Oct 14, 2025 | News/Blog
History’s Dutch and Flemish women artists are having a moment! Currently there are at least three art exhibitions focused on early modern female makers of the Low Countries. Three of these shows incorporate an international traveling component. In addition,...
by artherstory | Aug 19, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Stephanie Dickey, art historian Feature image: Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers, 1709, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Promised Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterlo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art Picture this. The year is...
by artherstory | Feb 25, 2025 | News/Blog
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...
by artherstory | Feb 20, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sivan Maoz, MA Graduate, The Warburg Institute, London The biblical story of Judith recounts how a young Jewish widow saved her people by using her wit and charm to behead the Assyrian general Holofernes. Central to this narrative is Judith’s...
by artherstory | Jan 14, 2025 | News/Blog
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...