The Woman Behind the Madonna
Working within her family’s workshop, Barbara Longhi developed a distinctive style of intimate devotional painting that brought the religious art of the Counter-Reformation into remarkably personal focus.
The Dowry of Talent
One woman changed what it meant to be a female artist. She did not just paint. She made a career out of it.
Painter, Portraitist, Pioneer (Guest Post)
Guest Post from Erika Gaffney of Art Herstory - celebrating women artists of centuries past! Visit https://artherstory.net for more.
Painting the New Woman
Mary Cassatt spent most of her life in France. Yet she remained, in many ways, an outsider: an American among the Impressionists, a woman in a male artistic world, and an artist who deliberately built her life outside the expectations
The Science and Poetry of Flowers
Rachel Ruysch stands among the most celebrated still-life painters of the Dutch Golden Age. She also happens to be its best document female artist. Specialising in floral compositions, Ruysch transformed the still life into something both scientifically exact and emotionally
