All posts tagged "female artists"
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Artist
Painting of the Week: Artemisia Gentileschi, Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria
March 24, 2019Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656) was ‘one of the best Italian Baroque painters.’ Despite this, you...
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19th Century
Thérèse Schwartze. The Painter of the Amsterdam’s Elite
March 16, 2019Thérèse Schwartze (1851 – 1918) grew up in an artistic family. Her father Johann Georg Schwartze...
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Women Artists
The Surprising Career of Lavinia Fontana: Painter of Popes, Nudes, and Noblewomen
November 23, 2018There weren’t very many women able to become successful artists in Renaissance Europe. There were probably...
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Women Artists
The Advancing Women Artists Foundation – Rediscovering Female Artists in Florence
September 27, 2018The Advancing Women Artists Foundation (AWA) is a group that aims to restore female artists to the...
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20th century
Dream-like Artworks: Minnie Evans’ Divine Inspiration
August 14, 2018Folk Art, Surrealist, Visionary, Americana, call it what you will. Minnie Evans’ (1892-1987) dream-like artworks speak...
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Museums And Exhibitions
Life In Motion Review: Egon Schiele And Francesca Woodman At Tate Liverpool
August 2, 2018The current Life in Motion exhibition at Tate Liverpool features a dual display by two equally...
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Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi by Angelica Kauffmann
June 3, 2018Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi by Angelica Kauffmann shows a pretty Roman woman and her three...
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Women Artists
Female Painters of the Hudson River School, Part Two
August 7, 2017Earlier this year, I introduced six female artists of the Hudson River School, an important landscape...
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Women Artists
Six Female Artists of the Hudson River School
March 4, 2017The Hudson River School, a movement in American landscape painting, was America’s first independent artistic tradition. It was very...
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Artists' Stories
Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress Of Montmartre
September 23, 2016She started as a model because she didn’t have money for professional painting classes. She would...
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Female Artists
