On Oct. 7, 873 years after her death, the Vatican finally gave her the highest recognition for her considerable achievements. She was elevated to Doctor of the Church, a rare and solemn title reserved for theologians who have significantly impacted Church doctrine.
In April 2007, at a Sotheby’s Los Angeles auction this stunning miniature Faberge Chair was sold at US $ 2,28 mio. If you are interested in Faberge, check out: Mieks Fabergé Eggs of fellow Dutch woman Annemieke Wintraecken. Junkyard Clubhouse wrote: It’s the work of Faberge workmaster Michael Perchin, and is based on furniture designed … Continue reading "A Miniature Faberge Chair fetched US $ 2.28 Mio"
Eroiche, tenaci, innamorate: sono le donne protagoniste delle Eroidi di Ovidio. Il sontuoso codice di Luisa di Savoia ci mostra i loro volti.
I really like 18th century art, and what's better is when it is teeny weeny. Last summer I was completely enamored with miniature portraits. The whole idea is completely dripping with utter fantasticness. History: Portrait miniatures began to flourish in 16th century Europe and continued…
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Frances Glessner Lee's miniature murder scenes are dioramas to die for
Followers of our Twitter account may remember an image we posted a few months ago on #InternationalHugAMedievalistDay, showing a woman being interrupted from her reading by a man trying to embrace her. It turns out that the story behind the image involves ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, female intellectuals, Epicureans, misogyny...
Scivias is Hildegard of Bingen's first major work. The 35 images contained in the manuscript illustrate 26 of Hildegard's most vivid visions.
Magic is in the air this weekend, as audiences worldwide have been going to see Disney’s live action remake of its classic animated tale, Beauty and the Beast. In Disney’s version of this classic tale, an enchantress places a curse on a vain prince which turns him into a hideous...
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Women in the Act of Painting is an ever-growing collection of fine art images that depict women artists in the act of creating their artwork.
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Ron Mueck, né à Melbourne en 1958 (il vit et travaille en Grande-Bretagne), n’a de cesse de perturber et d’interroger les critères et les tabous de notre société à travers la présentation d’un corps humain hors normes. «Je n’ai jamais eu l’ambition d’être sculpteur… je ne sais pas pourquoi je fais ça mais je ne…
Artist Unknown "Painter in Her Atelier" 1400s Spencer Collection This miniature is from an illuminated book entitled "Des cléres et nobles femmes." De mulieribus claris (Of Famous Women) was written by Giovanni Boccaccio and was first published in 1374. It became a runaway "bestseller" of its age and was copied and re-copied hundreds of times. This particular edition (MS. 33, f. 37v) is French and part of the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library. The painting shows the artist Marcia at work in her atelier. It is usually described as Marcia painting a self-portrait, as you can see the small mirror affixed to the arch next to the easel. The artist has set the painting in his or her "contemporary" 15th century France, but Marcia was actually an artist from ancient Roman times. From the wikipedia entry: Iaia of Cyzicus ("Marcia") was a Roman painter, alive during the time of Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC). She was a famous painter and ivory engraver. Most of her paintings are said to be of women. Among pictures ascribed to her was a large panel, in Naples, picture of an old woman and a self-portrait. She was said to have worked faster and painted better than her male competitors, Sopolis and Dionysius, which enabled her to earn more than them.
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Allusions are a type of literary device that makes a reference to another well-known work or event. Typically, allusions are not considered complex or hard to understand. The difficulty in recognizing allusions in a piece of literature stems from the reader's familiarity with the work that's referenced. ...
biographie et peintures de la femme artiste peintre Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux
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Meteen naar het recept Een lekker hapje uit de dertiende eeuw Begin juli 2005 opende in het Universiteitsmuseum in Utrecht een tentoonstelling over het boeiende middeleeuwse boek Sidrac. Normaliter…
We are thrilled to announce the recent upload of one of our best-loved (and most-requested) medieval manuscripts to our Digitised Manuscripts site; Christine de Pizan’s Book of the Queen (Harley MS 4431) is now online! Detail of a miniature of Christine de Pizan in her study at the beginning of...
What made the southern Low Countries in the Middle Ages unique in a European perspective was the weight of the region as an export-oriented industrial area.
Dolls are cool. We present to you know dollmake Tamara Pivnyuk from Kiev, Ukraine. If you like what you see and you want to see more or find out about Ms. Pivnyuk, check out her website here.
These famous Hildegard of Bingen quotes illustrate the broad spectrum of her contribution to humanity. Her creative power resonates from each one.
This article examines the Gerona Beatus by Ende, the first female illuminator recorded in Spain, and manuscript illumination in medieval art.
From daughters to soldiers, from wives to weaponized, they remain the only documented frontline female troops in modern warfare history. A sub-saharan band of female terminators who left their European colonisers shaking in their boots, foreign observers named them the Dahomey Amazons while they cal
Scivias is Hildegard of Bingen's first major work. The 35 images contained in the manuscript illustrate 26 of Hildegard's most vivid visions.
