by Erika Gaffney | May 13, 2022 | News/Blog
This Spring, Art Herstory is excited to announce eight new note card designs! Two artists—Clara Peeters and Rachel Ruysch—make a repeat appearance. But with this year’s card additions we introduce six “new” female Old Masters: Rosalba Carriera,...
by wpengine | Feb 9, 2022 | News/Blog
By Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the rediscovery of Caravaggio’s Judith and Holofernes, Palazzo Barberini is dedicating the exhibition Caravaggio and Artemisia: The Challenge of Judith (until...
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 31, 2021 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new books about women artists—from the past, and also from the present—that have come to our attention, published in the final quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
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...
