Education Matters! Women in Art Academies
From the 17th to the 19th century, art academies across Europe and America excluded women from their classrooms. Only a few of them count as...
Jimena Escoto 23 April 2026
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Rosalba Carriera: The Accomplished Pastellist
Do you know the great Rococo portraitist Rosalba Carriera? She was one of the most famous painters of the early 18th century. Carriera became known...
Maia Heguiaphal 17 April 2026
4 Most Famous Venetian Rococo Painters
Venetian Rococo played an important role in 18th-century European art. Rococo covers the period from 1700 to 1799, also called settecento. Many great...
Kateryna Martynova 17 April 2026
Venetian Art in 10 Paintings: A Journey Through Color and Light
Venice has always been more than canals and carnival masks—it’s a city that helped shape the course of European art. From the Byzantine...
Alessia Caldana 6 April 2026
Paintings Within Paintings: Time to Go Meta in the Art World
A few years ago, the art world celebrated the complete restoration of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. One of the...
Jimena Escoto 5 June 2025
Women Artists of Venice: A New Initiative in Research and Conservation
Soon, the historical female artists of Venice will finally get their due! A new initiative, Women Artists of Venice, aims to restore artworks by at...
Alexandra Kiely 8 October 2021
