Adelina Modesti
lunaspun.bsky.social
Adelina Modesti
@lunaspun.bsky.social
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.
Thank you ☺️
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Thanks for sharing Jesse.
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thanks for sharing!
October 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Thanks!
May 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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
Not a self portrait but a portrait of Elisabetta Sirani said to be by her sister Barbara, also a painter
May 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
An Allegory of Virtue, its companion piece is Fame
May 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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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 -
shop.getty.edu/products/eli...
November 18, 2023 at 7:31 PM