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Adelina Modesti
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Senior Fellow in Art History at University of Melbourne. I work on women artists and patrons of the early modern period. Like art, music, film, reading, history, travel.
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October 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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#ArtHerstory has published the "New Books about #WomenArtists" book round-up for Q2, 2025! Visit this link for a list of recently published monographs and exhibition catalogs, as well as books for young readers: artherstory.net/new-books-ab...

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Two rows of book covers, five on each row - all of books about women artist.
July 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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📖Book review: Elisabetta Sirani by Adelina Modesti.

"a highly accessible narrative which is gripping, informative, and truly illuminating....reminding us that many historical women artists are still awaiting equal representation outside of the boundaries of academia." /1 of 2
May 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Happy to see Anna Pratley's review for Women's Studies Group 1558 – 1837 of

Elisabetta Sirani
by Adelina Modesti

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A book cover on which is reproduced a painting of a scene from the Biblical story Judith & Holofernes (a woman in elaborate Renaissance garb pulling a human head out of a sack). The book's title is printed down the right edge of the cover in red sans serif text; the author's name is in white block capitals across the bottom.
May 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Elisabetta Sirani,
Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, 1655–1665, engraving by a rare and early successful female Baroque painter and printmaker from Italy #WomensArt
Print in black and white of a sitting woman in a robe with two small infants, one half sits and stands on her lap to the left while the other to the right stands and holds the central figure
June 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Still Life with Lemons [and a Bee], late 1640s, by #GiovannaGarzoni (Italian, 1600-1670). Source, @apollo-magazine.com, apollo-magazine.com/can-tefaf-ne... #artherstory #womenartists #WorldBeeDay
A delicate watercolor drawing of three lemons on two branches with leaves, with three white flower heads sitting in front of the fruit on a beige-gray surface (maybe a cloth, maybe a stone ledge). Above the largest lemon, which sits just to the left of the middle of the artwork, hovers a bee in flight, perhaps about to alight on a stalk of flowers that emerges from the portion of the branch just behind the fruit.
May 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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May 30 at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, and online #earlymodern #arthistory #naples #napoli #capodimonte
venerdì 30 maggio 2025 ore 16.30 Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte Sala 20 Maestro dell’Annuncio ai Pastori, Adorazione dei pastori (particolare), 1620-25, olio su tela, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 14a Conferenza Annuale dell’Italian Art Society e Samuel H. Kress Foundation The Masterof the Annunciation to the Shepherds: The Material World of an Unknowable Painter Jesse Locker Professore di Storia dell’Arte Italiana Rinascimentale e Barocca Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design, Portland State University con Eike Schmidt Direttore Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte Sarah K. Kozlowski Direttrice Centro per la Storia dell'Arte e dell'Architettura delle Città Portuali "La Capraia" Kelli Wood Vice Presidente Italian Art Society La conferenza si terrà in lingua inglese e sarà trasmessa anche online al seguente link https://zoom.us/j/96924678935 INGRESSO LIBERO RSVP lacapraia@gmail.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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May 21 - online talk
"Tamara de Lempicka: Modern Maverick" by Alison de Lima Greene, @mfahouston.bsky.social
Organized by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, Inc.
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Tamara de Lempicka: Modern Maverick Presentation by Alison de Lima Greene, Houston (TX) - Fritz Ascher Society
Join Alison de Lima Greene, MFAH curator, for an introduction to the remarkable arc of Lempicka’s career as she rose to the pinnacle of café society in 1920s and 1930s Paris, and her American odyssey ...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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#ArtHerstory has published the "New Books about #WomenArtists" book round-up for Q1, 2025! Visit this link for a list of recently published monographs and exhibition catalogs, as well as children's books: artherstory.net/new-books-ab...

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Two rows of 4 book jackets each. All of the books are about a woman artist or a group of women artists.
May 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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2/2 One starry night, Judith disposes of the head of Holofernes. A favorite subject of painter Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna, whose day is today.
January 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Autoritratto come santina (Self-portrait as a Saint) by Elisabetta Sirani - Oil on canvas / 1658 - Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (Italy) #womeninart #art #oilpainting #womanartist #selfportrait #portraitofawoman #womensart #fineart #saint #ElisabettaSirani #italianart #PinacotecaNazionalediBologna
Based on a 19th-century inscription on the back of the canvas, the painting has been recognized as the surviving fragment of Elisabetta Sirani's self-portrait, originally placed on the left side of a large work titled “Baptism of Christ.” The portrait is mentioned in the Nota delle pitture fatte da me Elisabetta Sirani, handed down from her father Giovanni Andrea Sirani after Elisabetta’s untimely death in 1665. In her diary under the year 1658, the young artist, then twenty years old, writes: "A very large painting for the Fathers of the Certosa, within which there is the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan: and the two little Saints who go from the sides in their company, and in one of these is my portrait, that is, the one who looks up to Heaven.” 1658 was a crucial year for Elisabetta, who, at 20 attempted such a monumental work, intended for public enjoyment and commissioned by a highly authoritative client. Also in 1658, on January 22, the oldest known praise addressed to Elisabetta was written in a letter sent to Leopoldo de' Medici in Florence by Bonaventura Bisi, a Franciscan friar known as the Padre Pittorino, skilled in miniature painting and renowned for his artistic flair. His praise facilitated the professional affirmation of the novice female painter Elisabetta. This youthful self-portrait is the only one that the artist herself mentions. It is known that the self-portrait, before being cut and reduced to a modest fragment, measured 220x76 cm and was a full-length figure. What remains is a female effigy, half-length, wearing a monastic veil and wimple with her eyes raised to skyward. Elisabetta modestly hides her hair, poses contrite and “looks to Heaven.” The self-portrait remained hanging in the church of the Certosa for almost 150 years.
February 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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#SabiasQue El arte de Elisabetta Sirani era tan reconocido en su época que incluso está enterrada con Guido Reni https://investigart.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/elisabetta-sirani-el-triunfo-de-una-mujer-virtuosa/
November 18, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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Our eyes need art, especially as a respite during this doom-filled time. Some Italian woman artists whose work moves me: Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana, Fede Galizia, & Elisabetta Sirani
January 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Fame. Because painter Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna knew all about this one. And today is her day.
January 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Renaissance artist Elisabetta Sirani made so many paintings (over 200!) in such a short time that people doubted she painted them. Her solution? In 1664, she invited them to watch her paint a portrait in one sitting!

#Art #arthistory #artist #artcommunity #history #artists #arts #gallery #paint
January 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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@jacriding.bsky.social chose Adelina Modesti’s recent book “Elisabetta Sirani” as one of the @theartnewspaper.bsky.social’s Top Art Books of 2023, www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/05/t...
It is in the @lhartbooks.bsky.social series #IlluminatingWomenArtists, www.lundhumphries.com/products/eli...
The top art books of 2023—chosen by The Art Newspaper’s book team
There is something for every art lover among our pick of the publications—from a forgotten 17th-century painter to a lively history of dyes
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January 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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[20] One of the things where the National Gallery of Ireland is ahead of other countries is the collection & display of great works by historic women painters. It continues to do that & here is a beautiful Virgin & Child (1660) by the important painter Elisabetta Sirani (1638-65)
March 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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There's a new, beautifully illustrated, book about Elisabetta Sirani, by Adelina Modesti

- Avail from Lund Humphries in UK/ROW - lundhumphries.com/products/eli... Avail from Getty Publications in North America -
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November 18, 2023 at 7:31 PM
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Elisabetta Sirani #elisabettasirani
May 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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No dia 25 de abril de 2025, ocorrerá a Defesa pública de Dissertação, do Mestrado em História do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, UFJF

“La gloria del sesso donnesco: a imagem do feminino em Elisabetta Sirani na Bolonha do século XVII” de Larissa Caroline Curcio Silva
April 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Adelina Modesti's biography of Elisabetta Sirani review in The Art Newspaper www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/05/t...
The life of Elisabetta Sirani—‘the best brush in Bologna’—explored in new publication
Despite meticulously documenting her own career, the artist was largely forgotten in the centuries after her death
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September 10, 2023 at 9:52 PM
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****”Your body. My choice!****
Timoclea of Thebes throws the man who raped her down a well. She next hurled in heavy stones until he was dead. Painted in 1659 by Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna
(Courtesy of Sue Echelmeyer)
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November 13, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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Powerful work. Partial to Bolognese, Lavinia Fontana, Elisabetta Sirani, Ginevra Cantofoli et al www.finestresullarte.info/en/ancient-a...
Bologna, finishes the restoration of Lavinia Fontana's Judith
In Bologna, the restoration of Lavinia Fontana's Judith with the Head of Holofernes, a work from the Davia Bargellini Museum, has been completed. The work will be on view for a few days free of charge...
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March 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#WomensHistoryMonth, day 3:

Elisabetta Sirani (Italian, 1638–1665)
Portia Wounding Her Thigh, 1664
Oil on canvas
Collezioni d'Arte e di Storia della Fondazione Carisbo, Bologna

SIrani was one of the first women artists in early modern Bologna. More in the alt text.
The oldest daughter of painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Elisabetta trained in her father's studio, eventually becoming one of the most renowned painters in Bologna. By 1654, Elisabetta was running the family workshop. Her studio was highly successful, partially due to the progressive atmosphere of Bologna, where women artists were accepted and celebrated. As a teacher, she trained a number of men and women artists, including her younger sisters Barbara and Anna Maria and at least twelve other young women at the school she set up, the first school of painting for women in Europe outside of a convent. Sirani died suddenly in August 1665. Her death was considered suspicious and a maidservant was charged with poisoning the artist, though the charges were later dropped. The story of Portia comes from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, where he wrote that she injured her own thigh to prove to her husband, Brutus, that she had the strength of will to share his burdens and secrets.
March 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM