Women Artists Ascending Art historian Paris Spies-Gans uncovers art’s unsung “sheroes,” moving them to the forefront of the canon

Women Artists Ascending
Art historian @pspiesgans.bsky.social uncovers art’s unsung “sheroes,” moving them to the forefront of the canon
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Eight Paintings by Women Artists Sought for Exhibition - CODART The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent are currently preparing the first survey exhibition on women artists from the Low Countrie...

Eight Paintings by Women Artists Sought for Exhibition

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French Artist Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Revolutionary Painter Paris Spies-Gans surveys the achievement of 18th-century French painter Marie-Guillemine Benoist, focusing on her publicly exhibited work.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Revolutionary Painter
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The exhibition banner for Rachel Ruysch, Nature into Art - a long narrow horizontal rectangle white text reversed out of pink background, with a close up of a sunflower at the right. A white and tan butterfly flies up to flower from the left; toward the center of the flower sits a bee.

Opened today in Munich -

🌻 Rachel Ruysch – Nature into Art
26.11.2024 – 16.03.2025 | Alte Pinakothek

All information at: pinakothek.de/en/nature-into-art

#RachelRuysch #womenartists #artherstory

The French artist Maurice Quentin De La Tour points at a portrait of his glasses-wearing cat on an easel.

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🖼️: John Kay, The Favourite Cat and De La-Tour Painter (detail), 1813, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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A newly identified portrait of Princess Mary, later Queen Mary I. Mary is wearing a black court gown with an embroidered, upturned collar. She has a black French hood, and a very distinctive cross set with five diamonds. Mary was gifted this cross in 1546 by her father, King Henry VII.

I am so thrilled to have been part of Emma Rutherford’s research team to reidentify this stunning portrait as Princess Mary, the future Queen Mary I. Displayed at Compton Verney, we argue that it was painted by Susannah Horenbout in c.1546 and is a rare example of her work. #Tudor #ArtHistory #MaryI

An illumination of a saint (Joseph?) holding baby Jesus, opposite another saint (Francis of Assisi?) in a brown robe, holding a crucifix in his right hand and cradling a human skull in his left hand. Both saints stand on clouds. The depiction is surrounded by a thick elaborate border with floral designs, cherubs, and portrait busts of saints.

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Discovering Early Modern #WomenArtists in Iberia
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Pictured: Carta Ejecutoria de Hidalguía, 1675, by #LuisaValdés; private collection

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Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has assembled lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in that calendar year, and we’re doing the same this year for 2024 publi...

A reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social publishes lists of books and articles produced by contingent historians at the end of each year. If you wrote something, or know someone who did, submit the info here so I know to included it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

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Revolution’s definition document, the Declaration of the Rights of Man. A student of Jacques-Louis David, Vallain would exhibit classical and religious canvases at the Louvre Salon through 1810. Her story challenges so many assumptions about the ways we tell women's stories across time.

Jacobin Club, led by Robespierre. When the club closed in 1794, the painting entered the French national collection—where it remains today. Vallain featured the Revolution’s key attributes: a red Phrygian cap, the staff of liberty, and, in Liberty’s right hand, a detailed and legible copy of the /

In both, I show that women artists 1) have generally always existed, and 2) have mattered much more than we've thought.

I'll leave you with one of my favorite paintings: Nanine Vallain's (1767-1815) Liberty, or “Marianne,” made in 1793-94 and which immediately hung in the revolutionary /

Hi! I'm a historian of gender, art, and the politics of artistic expression. My first book, A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France (@yalebooks.bsky.social), came out in 2022. I'm now writing a broader look into #WomenArtists across time (Doubleday/US, Viking/UK). /