by artherstory | Jan 14, 2025 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Outdoor signage at Alte Pinakothek, Munich, for Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art. Author photo. The world has waited a very long time—300 years, give or take—for the first monographic exhibition of the Amsterdam-based flower...
by artherstory | Nov 5, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by David Pullins, Jayne Wrightsman Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Marquise de Grollier, Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches and Grapes, 1780, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. An unconventional biography Charlotte Eustache...
by wpengine | Apr 11, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Jessica L. Fripp, Texas Christian University On the value of women In 1876, the heirs of the French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard donated two works, the Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie-Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de...
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...
by wpengine | Dec 21, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kelsey Brosnan, PhD in Art History, Rutgers University On December 12, 2020, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its European Paintings galleries, largely closed to the public for the past two years. One of the newly reinstalled spaces...