by wpengine | Jul 16, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Camille Nouhant Figure 1. Outside view of the Castello del Buonconsiglio, in front of which the exhibition poster stands. The limitations of group exhibitions for women artists Much has been done for female artists, ever since the pioneering...
by wpengine | Jul 5, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Cecilia Gamberini From 2 March 2021 to 25 July 2021, the rooms of Palazzo Reale in Milan are hosting an exhibition devoted to iconic Italian women artists of the Renaissance and Baroque: Le Signore dell’Arte. Storie di donne tra ’500...
by Erika Gaffney | May 17, 2021 | News/Blog
In a previous Art Herstory post, we highlighted one dozen women artists from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the time, we noted that the twelve painters and sculptors in that list represented only a small percentage of female makers of centuries...
by wpengine | Apr 16, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sheila ffolliott, Professor Emerita of Art History, George Mason University This post follows upon Merry Wiesner-Hanks’ guest piece Why Do Old Mistresses Matter Today? posted here on 21 April 2019. It is also a pendant post of The Politics of...
by Erika Gaffney | Jan 16, 2020 | News/Blog
“Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age” has recently closed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. On February 2, “A Tale of Two Women Painters” closes at the Prado. So, what do fans of female Old Masters have to look forward to? In a...
