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...
by artherstory | Nov 14, 2024 | News/Blog
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...
