by wpengine | Mar 9, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kathleen G. Arthur, Professor Emerita, James Madison University Caterina Vigri (1413–1463) is the best-known Italian convent artist among a half-dozen fifteenth-century examples. On her saint’s day, March 9, we remember her accomplishments as a...
by wpengine | Nov 25, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Angela Ghirardi, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Bologna until 2018 Suor Orsola Maddalena Caccia—or simply Sister Orsola, as she signs herself in one instance, in the 1648 altarpiece discussed below—was an Ursuline nun. She...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 14, 2019 | News/Blog
Art Herstory Christmas card, featuring The Nativity of Christ, 1620-25, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia. Art Herstory announces its first Christmas card, which features a Nativity by Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676). Born Theodora Caccia, Suor Orsola Maddalena was a nun...