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Happy International Women’s Day
And thank you, Leticia Ruiz, for the beautiful curation of the exhibition.
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Grazie, Art in Fiction
I want to thank Carol Cram, Art in Fiction for the lively interview. Art in Fiction is fast generating a substantial list and is a terrific resource for readers and art lovers alike. Sofonisba’s legacy and Lady in Ermine thank you as well.
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Auguri Sofonisba, Your Work Lives On
Here’s how I saw it in Paterno` in 2006. They have done a terrific job enhancing the color. Well done Museo Civico di Cremona and Silvia Galli.
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A PRINCESS OF PEACE for 2021 So much pain, in so many ways, 2020. Yet, also, transformation, change, growth. Quarantine offered time and simplicity. I used my time and angst in 2020 to polish the screenplay adaptation of LADY IN ERMINE. Six rewrites. It was rough in June. Wordy in July. Rambling in August. In…
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The Queen’s Gambit Meet Lady In Ermine
With the success of The Queen’s Gambit, Sofonisba’s Chess Game is relevant again. Sofonisba wove a narrative of her own Queen’s Gambit right into the game played in her 1555 masterpiece. It’s dramatized in Lady in Ermine, Chapter Four, “The Chess Game.” I think Sofi would enjoy this series and it’s focus on women and…
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When Senators are Silent
“He had absolute control of the provinces, too, and power to appoint the provincial governors-general, together with the command of the armies and the right of levying troops and of making peace or war. In Rome he was voted the life-office of People’s Protector, which secured him against all interference with his authority, gave him…
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Sofonisba’s Legacy of Invezione Today
I’m delighted to read of Genova’s successful near-completion of the bridge that collapsed so very recently, in 2018. It gives me a feeling of optimism, literally a bridge for the future, inspiring. I can’t resist connecting the success of this modern-day project with Sofonisba’s life of creative invention (invenzione/inventione). Sofonisba and her husband lived in…
Lady In Ermine: The Story of A Woman Who Painted The Renaissance
by Donna DiGiuseppe
Lady In Ermine: The Story of A Woman Who Painted The Renaissance 