Antonella Guarracino 29/12/2023 Antonella Guarracino 29/12/2023

Women Painters in Early Modern Italy

A free online art appreciation course to survey the careers of the most notable early modern Italian women painters, who achieved fame among their contemporaries but whose artistic oeuvres became obscured over time.

Antonella Guarracino 29/10/2023 Antonella Guarracino 29/10/2023

Determined, diligent, dynamic women artists

Introducing Women Painters in Early Modern Italy, a free online art appreciation course to present and contextualize the work of a selection of women artists who were born and spent most of their lives in Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Antonella Guarracino 02/07/2023 Antonella Guarracino 02/07/2023

Two particularly notable paintings by Lavinia Fontana

It’s fair to say that almost every painting featured in Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker has the power of charming the viewer but two in particular – Cleopatra (1585 ca. or 1605) and Venus and Mars (1595 ca.) – have had me hooked on their iconography since the exhibition opened in May.

Antonella Guarracino 17/06/2023 Antonella Guarracino 17/06/2023

Atelier Lavinia Fontana

Alla National Gallery of Ireland la mostra Lavinia Fontana: pioniera e trasgressiva celebra l’opera dell’artista bolognese che, precorrendo i tempi e trasgredendo le norme vigenti, fece dell’arte la propria professione e del genere del ritratto una raffinata forma di comunicazione.