Tag: Renaissance Art
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In Honor of 400 years since Sofonisba
https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Ermine-Renaissance-Biographical-Anguissola/dp/1734614706 Sofonisba dreamed. She struggled. And she succeeded. Then history forgot her. In honor of 400 years since her death, read her story.
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Sofonisba’s Legacy
November, 1625 Imagine that 400 years ago, in November, 1625, Sofonisba Anguissola died, around the age of 90, leaving a body of work that spanned over 80 years. Her oils can be found all over the world, some still being discovered. Imagine a woman who did all that, so long ago. Sofonisba Anguissola was truly…
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Excited for the Bay Area Book Festival. Come visit me Sunday May 7th in Berkeley
I’ll be signing books you bring. Find through your local bookshop or on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Ermine-Renaissance-Biographical-Anguissola/dp/1734614706 ISBN 978-1-7346147-0-1 ISBN 978-0-86698-821-6. LADY IN ERMINE dramatizes the true life of the most successful female artist of the Renaissance Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1535-1625) who influenced generations of artists, and then history forgot about her.
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Sargent & Spain
I did not see much of Sofonisba’s influence at the San Francisco Legion of Honor exhibition Sargent & Spain. I thought I would see her influence since he went to Spain to study the historic painters. But then I saw this painting, and I instantly thought of Sofonisba’s portrait of Eleonora de Medici at the…
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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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Master Sofonisba Anguissola
In honor of Sofonisba’s newly recognized accomplishments and the Prado exhibition of her work, I would like to present her Boy Bitten (drawn for Michelangelo) and her Girl Laughing next to each other to accentuate Sofonisba’s effort. She conceived of these close in time and the figures and positioning show how she experimented with subtle…
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ANTICIPATING SOFONISBA’S EXHIBIT AT THE PRADO MUSEUM OPENING OCTOBER 22 IN MADRID.
I’m eager to return to the Prado Museum in Madrid in a few weeks for a close up inspection of Sofonisba’s Portrait of Philip II which I last viewed in storage in 2009 with the kind permission of Leticia Ruiz, curator of the upcoming exhibit. I originally met Dr. Ruiz through my association with Maria Kusche at Progetto…
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Sofonisba’s Inventiveness; Vasari’s Inventione
Given Sofonisba’s 1554 Dominican Astronomer (signed and dated upside down), her nonconformist, voluptuous 1559 Virgin Mary (signed and dated) and her 1578 Madonna dell’ Itria, documented by her official bequest to the monastery (disputed for years as beyond her style), one cannot deny Sofonisba’s range, and the reason Vasari uses the term invenzione to describe her. Which…
Lady In Ermine: The Story of A Woman Who Painted The Renaissance 