by wpengine | Sep 20, 2021 | News/Blog
A Multi-faceted Illuminator within Artistic and Religious Reforms Guest post by Loretta Vandi, Independent Scholar Image 1, Lucca, Burlamacchi Palace, sixteenth century, North-West View. Photo: author. The Eventful Foundation On April 5th, 1502, at 2 a.m.,...
by wpengine | Sep 3, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Oliver Tostmann, The Wadsworth Atheneum This late September, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, will present By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800. The exhibition, co-organized with...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 9, 2021 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new publications about women artists — from the past, and also from the present — that have come to our attention, published in the second quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you...
by wpengine | Jun 7, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest Post by Isabelle Gapp, Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Imagine for a moment a woman clad in reindeer-fur breeches, the coarse hair of the animal hide layered above nutukas (traditional Sámi footwear), while a fur coat,...
by wpengine | May 19, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Katherine Manthorne, The Graduate Center, CUNY On this day—May 19th—in 1834 the best-selling female artist and illustrator in post-Civil War United States was born. A native of Salem, Massachusetts, Fidelia Bridges (1834–1923) forged an artistic career...
