Category: Reviews

• The Chess Game

  Just last week the Wall Street Journal published an article about hobbies and diversions and referenced Sofonisba’s Chess Game painted in 1555. WSJ spoke of the hobbies that entertained the nobility. What Sofonisba enthusiasts see in the painting is the ingenuity of her work and the subversive messages of female power embedded in the chess…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  April 27, 2020

  History & Influences, Reviews, Sofonisba’s Life, Women Renaissance Artists

  #Sofonisba, The Chess Game, women artists

• Sofonisba or El Greco? Sofonisba Cradle to Grave

  

  The details of Sofonisba Anguissola’s life show that she had the physical and geographical opportunity to paint a mature Catalina Micaela that her male contemporaries El Greco and Coello did not being far away in Spain. Sofonisba also had personal insight into the Infanta’s private world to render the Infanta of Spain, Catalina Micaela, as…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  October 16, 2019

  Historical Fiction, History & Influences, Prado Museum, Reviews, Sofonisba’s Life

  #El Greco, #Lavinia, #Prado, #Sofonisba, Philip II

• San Francisco Book Review

  Thank you Jennifer Melville for your lovely review on the San Francisco Book Review.  Click here to read the full review!

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  March 29, 2019

  Reviews

• Historical Novel Society reviews Lady in Ermine

  Check out the fantastic review by Elisabeth Lenckos on the Historical Novel Society

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  March 7, 2019

  Reviews