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 | Mar 9, 2021 | News/Blog
Drawings by Elisabetta Sirani and Properzia de’ Rossi Guest post by Jacqueline Thalmann, Christ Church, Oxford One of Britain’s most important Old Master drawings collections is held in Christ Church, one of Oxford’s largest colleges. Among the almost 2,000...
by wpengine | Mar 2, 2021 | News/Blog
Two Generations of Bolognese Women Artists in the Museum Collection Guest post by Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Smith College Museum of Art Between 2019 and 2020, the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) acquired works by two Bolognese artists,...
by wpengine | Feb 16, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Jesse Locker, Portland State University Though plagued with delays, lockdowns, and closures, the Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the National Gallery in London, which closed in January 2021, marked a transformation in the general public’s...
by Erika Gaffney | Jan 19, 2021 | News/Blog
Fruit and Flowers, c. 1630, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Orsola Maddalena Caccia is now at the Met! The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired three works by the seventeenth-century Italian artist-nun. Two of the paintings are still...