Discovering Early Modern Women Artists in Iberia

Guest post by Cathy Hall-van den Elsen, Independent scholar Researching the life and work of the Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán has been a lifelong endeavor. In 2020, as Covid set in and I waited for the publication of my book Luisa Roldán, I wondered about other...

Another Dozen Great Women Artists from Long Ago

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...