Paper Portraits: The Self-Fashioning of Esther Inglis

Guest post by Georgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library (Emerita) The Franco-Scottish calligrapher Esther Inglis (c.1569–1624) is known for her jewel-like manuscripts rendered in meticulous black and white line or in color. But she also created the earliest known...

A Tale of Two Women Painters

Thoughts on the marquee event of the Museo del Prado’s 200th-anniversary celebration Guest post by Natasha Moura, Madrid-based art blogger, educator, writer and cultural manager The exhibition A Tale of Two Women Painters just opened at the Museo del Prado in...

Renaissance Women Painting Themselves

Guest post by Katherine A. McIver, Professor Emerita of Art History, University of Alabama at Birmingham Thinking about the upcoming exhibition at the Prado, Madrid (October 2019) celebrating the Renaissance women artists Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625) and Lavinia...