by wpengine | Mar 23, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University Why Bologna? The north Italian city of Bologna produced the largest and most successful group of women artists in early modern Italy. Bologna is the real protagonist of my new book, Women Artists, Their Patrons,...
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 Erika Gaffney | Dec 16, 2020 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new publications—including games as well as books!—about women artists that have come to our attention, published in the fourth quarter of this calendar year. Descriptions are drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 27, 2020 | News/Blog
Just in time for the holiday season, Art Herstory launches two new items to celebrate history’s women artists. The first is an Artemisia Gentileschi-themed magnet/magnetic-bookmark combination. And the other is a Lavinia Fontana porcelain ornament. Either—or...
by wpengine | Aug 24, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Elizabeth Lev, Duquesne in Rome Caravaggio is now a household name; sometimes it seems that he was the sole artistic genus of the turn of the seventeenth century. As with any superstar player, though, there were dozens of hungry talents nipping at his...
