Articles tagged with: female artists
Women and Art bibliography
In 2009 I taught a course called “Women and Art in Early Modern Italy” and I realized that some of this material could be useful to researchers or students online. I’m writing up some reflections from the course for “Three Pipe Blog” (link forthcoming) and figured I’d donate the bibliography to the public here on …
Book review: Jane Fortune’s “Invisible Women” + win a copy!
Folks! my comprehensive book review of Jane Fortune’s “Invisible Women” is now online and in the paper! Read the article in The Florentine and see below to win your own copy!
Short summary: Invisible Women is an expression of love for the female artists of Florence’s past. Jane Fortune has dug through the archives of the …
Invitation to book presentation of “Invisible Women”
The Florentine Press and author Jane Fortune invite you to the official presentation of Invisible Women at the Biblioteca degli Uffizi
Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence
November 6 Biblioteca degli Uffizi 5pm
You can RSVP via the invitation on facebook!
Book review: Susan Vreeland’s Artemisia
The Assignment: Fact check Susan Vreeland’s art-historical novel The Passion of Artemisia. Vreeland appears to present a balanced and factually correct version of Artemisia Gentileschi’s life, without focusing entirely on her rape and its consequences. How correct are the various art historical facts, like the dating of paintings (as far as we know), the people …
Female artist biographical film project
Students in my advanced seminar on “Women and the Arts in Early Modern Italy” have been assigned the production of a short film biography on a female artist of the Renaissance or Baroque period.
Lavinia Fontana (female artist biographical film)
This video and article are part of the Female Artist biographical film project described here.
Summary: Lavinia Fontana was born into an artistic and middle class family in Bologna in 1552. Her talent and promise as an artist was recognized early in her childhood, for while Lavinia had numerous brothers, her father Prospero, himself a successful …
Elisabetta Sirani (female artist biographical film)
The Funerary Procession of Elisabetta Sirani
Summary: Elisabetta Sirani was a 16th century female painter from Bologna. She exceeded the expectations for her sex by painting scenes atypical for a female artist. Unfortunately, not much is known about her; what is known is that after her tragic death at age 27 Bologna held a lavish funeral …
Sofonisba Anguissola (female artist biographical film)
Sofonisba Anguissola: More than a Woman
Summary: Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) surpassed the expectations of women during the Italian Renaissance. She was well educated and trained under the tutelage of Bernardino Campi from 1545 to 1549 and thereafter with Bernardino Barri. With the help of her father, her works were well marketed and dispersed within the influential …
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