by wpengine | Jun 4, 2023 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney with Cara Verona Viglucci Signage at an entrance of Sofonisba Anguissola: Portraitist of the Renaissance at Rijksmuseum Twenthe; author photo Of the twenty-one paintings on display at Rijksmuseum Twenthe in the exhibition Sofonisba Anguissola:...
by wpengine | Apr 11, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nelleke de Vries, Rijksmuseum Twenthe From 11 February until 11 June 2023, Rijksmuseum Twenthe hosts the exhibition Sofonisba Anguissola: Portraitist of the Renaissance, on the noblewoman and artist Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532–1625). This is the...
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 9, 2021 | News/Blog
There hasn’t been an exhibition in the US along the lines of By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 since 2007, when the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) hosted Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to...
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...
