The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits | 
...Elisabetta inserted herself into many of her paintings and this one is no exception.
Elisabetta Sirani: Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great
Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665)
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...Elisabetta inserted herself into many of her paintings and this one is no exception.
Elisabetta Sirani: Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great
Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665)
In 1633, Judith [Leyster] became the only female member, alongside thirty men, of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke. This allowed her to sell her work on the open market, establish a workshop and take apprentices. In seventeenth-century Holland, Dutch painters delighted in portraying life in all its messy brilliance...
Just a cheeky sunny Saturday library haul!
Some of these are for the grandparents (very excited to resume my home library service duties now that travel/distance restrictions are a thing of the past)
