Tag: #Sofonisba
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Lady in Ermine in Rome
Lady in Ermine and Sofonisba in Rome with Domina, the novel and new series based on the life of Livia, another historic woman with a story to tell.
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
Lady In Ermine: The Story of A Woman Who Painted The Renaissance 