by wpengine | Apr 28, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Tori Champion, University of St. Andrews Fig. 1: Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, Umbella Corallina, punctata, similis, 82 / Alcyonium pingue complanatum, exilius cano pullulans, 152 / Alcyonium forma Pyri Estne Pyrum marinum Aldrovandi, C. B. Pin. 127 /...
by wpengine | Sep 9, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary Creed, The Morgan Library & Museum Fig. 1. Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1727. Pastel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Painter of the King’s Garden This week—September 6, specifically—marks the 241st anniversary of the...
by wpengine | Jul 23, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Christina K. Lindeman, University of South Alabama Self-portrait, 1761, by Anna Dorothea Therbusch. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; source, Wikipedia. Anna Dorothea Therbusch, born Anna Dorothea Lisiewska on July 23, 1721, is not a household name. However, her...
by wpengine | Apr 15, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Xavier F. Salomon, The Frick Collection An Anniversary April 15 marks the 264th anniversary of the death of the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757). Rosalba lived her entire life in a house on the Grand Canal, near the parish church...
by wpengine | Nov 16, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ann Golob, Researcher, Advancing Women Artists The eighteenth century was a time of tremendous change in Florence, Italy. Politically, the Medici era was coming to an end and the basic infrastructure of the city was in a state of decline. Florence—like...
