by Erika Gaffney | Oct 18, 2023 | News/Blog
Art Herstory’s newest store partner is the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) Shop! These cards complement an important new BMA exhibition—Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400–1800. From royal portraits and devotional sculptures to embroidered...
by artherstory | Jun 28, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University (emerita) Starting with the recognition that both artist and viewer shape, in cultural and religious terms, how Mary Magdalene has been perceived, identified, and categorized across time, my new...
by Erika Gaffney | Feb 11, 2022 | News/Blog
Big news, the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Shop now carries Art Herstory note cards! These sets, custom designed by the DIA, showcase the names and artworks of three Italian women artists who were famous in their time, but who have been overlooked in the centuries...
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 Erika Gaffney | Dec 9, 2021 | News/Blog
There hasn’t been an exhibition in the US along the lines of By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 since 2007, when the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) hosted Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to...
