by Erika Gaffney | Nov 28, 2020 | News/Blog
Here at Art Herstory, we love to showcase works by history’s women artists. And we love to see other organizations do the same! With that in mind, this year we present the first-ever Art Herstory Women Artists Favorite Things List. (It is along the lines of...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 20, 2020 | News/Blog
Art Herstory is humbly grateful to the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG), which has awarded its 2020 Digital Scholarship, New Media, and Art Award to the Art Herstory website. Praise from the SSEMWG Awards Committee The citation letter...
by wpengine | Nov 17, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Isabel Gilmour, Bachelor of Arts Candidate in Art History, Columbia University The unabashed and open expression of one’s sexual desire is still taboo in American society. But with her male landscapes that communicate her erotic desire for the male...
by wpengine | Nov 2, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Adelina Modesti, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Fig. 1. Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Painting, signed and dated “ELISAB.TA SIRANI F. 1658.” Moscow, Pushkin Museum. Painted for “Signor Cavazza, notary of the bishopric.”...
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...
