by artherstory | Feb 25, 2025 | News/Blog
Meeting Spain’s First Professional Female Sculptor Guest post by Olivia Turner, Curatorial Assistant, Meadows Museum, Dallas Title treatment for Luisa Roldán: Escultora Real. Author photo. Luisa Roldán in the Seventeenth Century Luisa Roldán, commonly known...
by artherstory | Nov 14, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Cathy Hall-van den Elsen, Independent scholar Researching the life and work of the Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán has been a lifelong endeavor. In 2020, as Covid set in and I waited for the publication of my book Luisa Roldán, I wondered about other...
by wpengine | Sep 8, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Cathy Hall-van den Elsen The Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652–1706) was recognised in her lifetime as an artist of considerable talent. Luisa was born in Seville, the daughter of Pedro Roldán, a prominent sculptor. Early in her career she carved...