"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."
Provided I was able to enter the Country, on day 2 I should wake up in Cairo. Our schedule today features three main points: the Egyptian Museum; the Citadel; the Bazaar. Let's see what it means. 1. The Egyptian Museum I'm assuming they mean the pink one, the...
Adelaide Sophia Claxton was a British painter of ghosts and today we take a look at her work on my Patreon. ...
Today we talk about this painting: drop by at my Patreon to take a look, if you can spare a dime! ...
Milano, around 1578 - Milano, 1630 Daughter of the miniaturist Nunzio Galizia and born around 1578, Fede started working at 12 and she's mostly known for her still lives, though she also worked on the human figure and religious subjects. She started working very early in her...
Ravenna, 1552 - Ravenna, 1638 Born from an accomplished painter and contemporary of the better-known Lavinia Fontana, Barbara took her first artistic steps in her father's workshop. We know very little of her life: Vasari talks of her as you would for a child, though she was...
Roma, 1595 - Mantova, 1651 If you're passionate about baroque art, you might have heard of Domenico Fetti. Born in 1589, six years before his sister, he worked for the Gonzagas and Mantova's churches are literally littered with his work, from the Cathedral's apse to Sant'Orsola....
Firenze, 1524 - Firenze, 1588 It is well known that one of the few ways you had to live as an artist in the XVI Century was by joining a nunnery. If you had the misfortune of being a woman, that is. Some painters had the luxury...
Florence, 1541 - Unknown, 1594 Lucrezia was born in Florence from a foreign noble family who had come to Tuscany to enter the Medici's court: her father was Alfonso Quistelli della Mirandola, a judge, and Giulia Santi, daughter from a long line of humanists and authors....
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...
