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 wpengine | Jun 4, 2023 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney with Cara Verona Viglucci Signage at an entrance of Sofonisba Anguissola: Portraitist of the Renaissance at Rijksmuseum Twenthe; author photo Of the twenty-one paintings on display at Rijksmuseum Twenthe in the exhibition Sofonisba Anguissola:...
by wpengine | Apr 11, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nelleke de Vries, Rijksmuseum Twenthe From 11 February until 11 June 2023, Rijksmuseum Twenthe hosts the exhibition Sofonisba Anguissola: Portraitist of the Renaissance, on the noblewoman and artist Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532–1625). This is the...
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...