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Erika Gaffney
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Sr Acq Editor, Early Modern Studies, Amsterdam University Press. Comm Editor, Art History, Lund Humphries. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
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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.

Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...

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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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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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.

www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...
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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I wish I could attend this book presentation. It's a great volume with many fine contributions. Say nice things about it, @judithpollmann.bsky.social! 😉
Poster for book presentation of A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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It's the annual opening of our mentoring scheme together with the the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network!

Applications for mentors and mentees open now. Apply by 30th November 2025.
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/education-ou... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Many thanks to the @rsaorg.bsky.social for sharing a notice of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death. www.rsa.org/news/709728/.... I will be attending the RSA meeting in February, so get in touch if you want to plan to talk teaching strategies! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #histmed
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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We are awarding FIVE tuition scholarships to RSA members who wish to attend the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute on the campus of the Université de Montréal. Apply by November 19, 2025! www.rsa.org/news/712947/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #scholarship #digitalhumanities
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 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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What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:10 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.

www.hydecollection.org/event/panel-...
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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wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱

Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 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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I am *so* excited to participate in this event, and to see the shows at The Hyde Collection!

A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the 17th Century and Beyond

Sharon Core: 1606 to the Sixties

Nina Katchadourian: Fake Plants and Other Curiosities

Tanya Marcuse “Woven No. 16”
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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.

www.hydecollection.org/event/panel-...
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 1:09 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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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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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.

Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...

Available on Etsy as well (10% discount thru 11/13): www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
Sofonisba Anguissola journal standing upright on a wooden table surrounded by a wreath of red and gold ribbon with holly leaves and pinecones. In the background by the bottom corner of a window, out of focus, is a Christmas tree decorated with gold and red balls, and yellow lights.
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 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
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A number of works by the artist are on view in "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, nmwa.org/exhibitions/...

The veiled self-portrait is not included in the show's NMWA version but will be on view in Gent, www.mskgent.be/en/exhibitio...
Unforgettable
In spring 2026, the MSK offers the chance to discover the fascinating works created by women artists in the Low Countries.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Veiled Self-Portrait, c. 1625-49, by #AnnaMariaVanSchurman (Dutch, 1607-1678), who was born #otd, Nov 5. Held by Museum Martena; image from projectvox.org/van-schurman... #womenartists #artherstory
A dark portrait in a dark wood oval frame of a blond white woman swathed in white gauze. She holds her hands up near her ears and separates the cloth so as to peek out of it.
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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*All* Dutch & Flemish Art Herstory products - including note card wallets - are on sale at a 35% discount in honor of this Year for Dutch and Flemish Women Artists, artherstory.net/a-year-for-d...
A Year for Dutch and Flemish Women Artists, 2025-2026
A post about exhibitions of art in 2025, as well as new books, to do with early modern Dutch and Flemish women artists.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Rachel Ruysch Rose Still Life Note Card: Kunstmuseum Basel Art etsy.me/4oTuFhk via Etsy

This autumn, we offer a 35% discount on all cards reproducing works by Dutch or Flemish women artists! Usually $3.95, its price is now $2.57 (w/ free shipping).
Note card open to show front and back. Front image is a floral nosegay, with a pink rose prominent, sitting on a stone ledge. On the back is the same image in thumbnail, plus text about artist and painting, and branding info/icons.
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
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PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
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November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM