Barbara Regina Dietzsch: Enlightened Flower Painter

Guest post by Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Senior Curator and Department Head of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Baltimore Museum of Art In 2020, as part of a year-long institutional initiative to purchase only art made by women, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)...

Art Herstory’s First Botanical Holiday Card

Each year Art Herstory offers a new holiday card design, which features (of course!) a work by a woman artist. This year, for the first time, the Art Herstory holiday card is not by a female Old Master, nor does it reproduce a Nativity. We present the first Art...

Curiosity and the Caterpillar

Maria Sibylla Merian’s Artistic Entomology Guest post by Kay Etheridge, Gettysburg College; with translations from German by Michael Ritterson Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian at 32, 1679, attributed to Jacob Marrel. Kunstmuseum, Basel....