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Lavinia Fontana: Italy’s First Female Professional Artist

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...

A Dozen Great Women Artists, Renaissance and Baroque

by Erika Gaffney | May 13, 2019 | News/Blog

As promised in a previous blog post (Michelangelo’s Sisters: (Re)Introducing Female Old Masters) here is a post that highlights the names and works of twelve female Old Masters. These dozen names represent only a small percentage of the women who were not only...

Michelangelo’s Sisters: (Re)Introducing Female Old Masters

by Erika Gaffney | Apr 14, 2019 | News/Blog

by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Almost 100 years ago, Virginia Woolf famously speculated that if Shakespeare had had a sister of equal genius, she would have suffered in obscurity because of her gender—and the phrase “Shakespeare’s Sister” entered our cultural...

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