"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Spilimbergo, 1538 - Venezia, 1559 Irene of Spilimbergo's birth and death are both accounted for in her grandfather's journal, and the latter is recorded as having happened after twenty-two days of fever and a splitting headache for having been too engaged in too much painting. Maybe...
Bologna, 1490 - 1530 When Giorgio Vasari wrote about the Lives of contemporary artists, he included four women in its Part IV: Plautilla Nelli, Lucrezia Quistelli, Sofonisba Anguissola and Properzia de' Rossi, the titular leader of the chapter including the others. Properzia isn't as well known...
Ascoli Piceno, 1600 - Roma, 1670 Considered the most prominent miniaturist of the Baroque Era, Giovanna Garzoni distinguishes herself for the production of still lives, parchments painted in a particular style called "a guazzo" and swift impressions in guache that almost seem to come out of...
Marietta Robusti known as "the Tintoretta" Venice, approx. 1554 - Venice, 1590 Marietta Robusti had one problem in life: being born to a famous father. In an age where emerging as a female artist was almost as difficult as today, she would live her life under his...
Ginevra Cantofoli Bologna, 1618 - Bologna, 1672 Ginevra died in 1672 aged 54 years, and that's the only way we know she was born in 1618. News of her life are scarce, but she entered the orbit of the more famous paintress Elisabetta Sirani and from her...
What can you do when all you want to do is paint and you have the full support of your family but society would never accept it? The Caccia family knew the answer: you take the vows and found your own artistic school, disguising it...
I've been reading a splendid and passionate book on the God Pan by Paul Robichaud, and it seems to be perfectly on point with the collective re-reading of The Wind in the Willows we're doing on Twitter with a group of people. As you might...
Also known as Why the Sea is Salt or Why is the Sea salty? because of its most famous translation in Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, "Kvernen som maler på havsens bunn" is a Norwegian folk tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe...
Tomorrow is the start of #FolktaleWeek, a yearly initiative that gives a set of prompts to artists of all kinds. Their Twitter account is here, and their Instagram account (where they're most active) is here. The prompts for this year are as follows: Monday, 14th: Fool; ...
A rather intriguing artistical tradition from Japan, the Kusôzu is a series of illustrations, usually watercolours, illustrating in vivid detail the anatomical process of decomposition of the human body. Yes. You read it right. It's today's feature on my Patreon. ...
