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...
by wpengine | Nov 18, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian Following the pioneering studies of Consuelo Lollobrigida, which culminated in the first monograph on Plautilla Bricci. Pictura et Architectura Celebris. The architect of the Roman...
by wpengine | Oct 19, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Aoife Brady, National Gallery of Ireland In 1872, just eight years after first opening its doors, the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) purchased The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by...