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Commemorating Sofonisba Anguissola
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This blog post announces a new blank journal that commemorates the 400th anniv of Sofonisba's passing. It also explores the ways in which the artist's presence is felt today - including in new books!
Covers of six books - novels and adult non-fiction - that focus on Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola. The covers are arranged in two rows of three covers each. Front cover of a journal - it depicts an oval self-portrait of the young Sofonisba Anguissola holding a gold medallion with a monogram. The background is black. At the bottom, the attached ribbon bookmark is visible emerging from the book.
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This month is the 400th anniv of the passing of Sofonisba Anguissola. Art Herstory commemorates the moment with a (very) limited edition hard cover journal.

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Available on Etsy as well (10% discount thru 11/13): www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
Art Herstory's new Sofonisba Anguissola journal standing upright on the floor at the foot of a decorated evergreen tree, surrounded by wrapped gifts and behind a wavy red ribbon with tiny gold balls or bells under each wave.
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Portrait of Johann Julius von Vieth und Golßenau, 1771, by #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (#AnnaDorotheaLisiewska; German, 1721-82), who died #otd, Nov 9. Held by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, id.smb.museum/object/86425... #womenartists #artherstory
Portrait of a seated, heavy-set man wearing a curled white wig, and a green gown trimmed in brown fur. His right arm is in his lap; his dangling right hand holds a drawing. His left forearm leans on a desk beside him; on it stand a painted, framed portrait of a woman; a dark-colored Apollo statuette; and a miniature enamel portrait. A graphics folder and a folio are crowded into the bottom right corner.
November 9, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Just visited the exhibition of her life & work at the Tate Britain, on Friday. The quality of her work and her eye for the essentials behind the story really stood out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Michaelina Wautier at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Is Michaelina Wautier the Greatest Artistic Rediscovery of the Century?
The forgotten Old Master Michaelina Wautier comes roaring back in a sweeping exhibition at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Autumn aster and dragonfly, c. 1770, by #MargarethaBarbaraDietzsch (German, 1716/26-1795), who was born #otd, Nov 8. Private collection? Source, www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Herb... #hernaturalhistory #artherstory #womenartists #MargarethaDietzsch
November 8, 2023 at 2:06 PM
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Apple Blossoms with Butterflies, C18th, by #MargarethaBarbaraDietzsch (German, 1716/26-1795), who was born #otd, Nov 8. Private collection? Source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #womenartists #hernaturalhistory #artherstory #MargarethaDietzsch
A watercolor drawing of a branch with white blossoms and green leaves against a black background, with a red butterfly on a leaf at the lower left, a caterpillar on a leaf at top left, and a dragonfly at the top right.
November 8, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Nov. is such a busy month…so I’m posting this to spur myself (& friends?) to get over to the MFA for this soon!
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There is exactly 1 month left to see “Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, Pioneer” at the @mfaboston.bsky.social - the show is on thru Dec 7.

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A photo of a glorious floral still life painting in a gold frame on a crimson wall, with the wall text next to it.
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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There is exactly 1 month left to see “Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, Pioneer” at the @mfaboston.bsky.social - the show is on thru Dec 7.

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A photo of a glorious floral still life painting in a gold frame on a crimson wall, with the wall text next to it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Self-portrait by artist/musician @jonimitchell, #BOTD in 1943.
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I am so excited to participate on this panel Sat, Nov 15 -

Is still life still relevant?

I get to talk with Bryn Schockmel & Derin Tanyol, Sharon Core, & Amanda Malmstrom about women & still life—the subject of 4 shows (!) this fall at The Hyde Collection.
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A sumptuous 17th-century food still life painting by Fede Galizia, featuring at left a woven wicker basket heaped with pears. In front of the basket and next to it sit some loose apples. Front and center are three cucumbers, behind which and toward the right edge of the painting is a melon with about a quarter cut out of it, exposing the interior of the fruit. In the back is a shallow white bowl which contains a pile of figs. The painting is called "Still Life with Apples, Pears, Cucumbers, Figs, Plums, and a Melon." According to the museum's object page, "An extremely skilled and detailed still life, the painting inspires the viewer to meditate on the splendor of nature. In the early modern period, such a work would have held both religious and scientific significance, allowing the viewer to be spiritually moved as well as marvel at the new scientific discoveries made possible by the recent invention of the microscope."
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Pineapple from Fruits of the Lima Market, 1850-53, by #DorotheaElizaSmith (British, 1804-64), who died #otd, Nov 6. Held by Oak Spring Garden Foundation; source, twitter.com/oak_spring/s... #hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
November 6, 2023 at 1:10 PM
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Frontispiece for Fruits of the Lima Market, 1850-53, by #DorotheaElizaSmith (British, 1804-64), who died #otd, Nov 6. Held by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, osgf.org/blog/2019/3/... #hernaturalhistory #womenarstists #artherstory
November 6, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com
Photo: Large bronze and stone sculpture of a Black woman holding a large open birdcage in her lap; one freed bird stands on top of the cage, while two others stand on the statue's pedestal near her feet. The ornate facade of the Omni Parker House Hotel in visible in the background.
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Louise Moillon Still Life Note Card: Fruit and Asparagus Art
Original painting held by the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social
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A note card opened facedown to show front and back covers. The front features a lush, colorful still life painting of peaches and plums in a basket on a surface, on which also sit pea pods and a bunch of asparagus. On the back is a thumbnail of the image surrounded by text with information about the painting. Text at the right presents branding information, with social media icons.
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Coming up Sat, Nov 15 -
Is still life still relevant?

Hyde Collection curators Bryn Schockmel & Derin Tanyol converse with Sharon Core, @erikagaffney.bsky.social & Amanda Malmstrom about women & still life—the subject of 4 shows at The Hyde Collection.

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A digital event poster with title and date in orange text outlined in white, superimposed over a grayed-out background image of a bouquet with roses, and an indistinguishable painting in the background at the left of the poster. At the bottom the museum name and logo are reversed out of a blue block.
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Anna Ancher’s Vaccination and Scientific Motherhood
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Anna Ancher | Her Painting Vaccination, and Scientific Motherhood
Alice Price explores the intersection of the art of Danish painter Anna Ancher with the rise in Denmark of women's activism.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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How do you start creating a world? It’s a question Los Angeles-based artist Harmonia Rosales had to ask herself while crafting  “Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic” (2025), a superbly fantastical book.
Harmonia Rosales Remixes the African Diasporic Pantheon
“I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview about her new book.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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A new work thought to be from Artemisia Gentileschi's Neapolitan period up for auction at Christie's www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
A painting of a kneeling woman holding and infant out toward St. Blaise, enthroned and dressed as a bishop, who makes a gesture of blessing
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Self-portrait, 1780, by #AngelicaKauffmann (#AngelicaKauffman, #AngelikaKauffmann, Swiss, 1741-1807), who died #otd, Nov 5. Held by The Phoebus Foundation, phoebusfoundation.org/en/agenda/in... #womenartists #artherstory
A half-length portrait on an oval canvas of a white woman with her hair piled high under a cap, wearing a white gown under a fur trimmed dusky pink overdress. Her hands are raised in front of her. With her left she supports her palette and holds three brushes; with her right hand, she loads a brush with paint from the palette.
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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This autumn, Art Herstory offers a discount on all cards reproducing works by Dutch or Flemish women artists! Usually $3.95, the cost of the Dorothea Storm-Kreps card is now $2.95 (w/ free shipping).
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Art Herstory offers a note card reproducing Twig with Two Pears, by #DorotheaStormKreps, artherstory.net/product/doro...
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Twig with Two Pears, n.d., by #DorotheaStormKreps (Dutch, 1734-72), who died #otd, Nov 5. Held by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, www.boijmans.nl/en/collectio...

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November 5, 2023 at 2:07 PM
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If you can't make the show - or if you enjoyed what you saw! - check out our series Illuminating Women Artists, which includes books on Gesina ter Borch; Clara Peeters; and Maria Sibylla Merian. Forthcoming in March 2026 is Michaelina Wautier.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Lund Humphries Commissioning Editor for Art History, @erikagaffney.bsky.social, visited the new exhibition: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750, and reports her impressions in this blogpost: artherstory.net/dutch-and-fl...
Dutch and Flemish Women Artists | A Major Art Exhibition at NMWA
This post describes, discusses and illustrates the 2025 art exhibition "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750" in Washington DC.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM