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Jan 1, 1165
The Middle Ages
Title: Second vision. Adam as Mankind
Artist: Hildegard of Bingen:
A German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, polymath.
Date of Art: c. 1165
Description:
The picture on folio 91r illustrates the second vision: the divine power of creation with the universe and man as symbol of the cosmos. Adam as Mankind appears within the cosmic sphere.
This artwork was interesting, the visions were important to people during the time period of the fall of Rome. -
Jan 1, 1467
The Middle Ages
Title:
Madonna and Child:
the artist:
Sandro Botticelli (painter) Florentine, 1446 – 1510, he used techniques of panel painting and fresco. Botticelli was established in Florence.
Date of Art: c. 1467
Artwork description:
Madonna with Child is a tempera painting. A young, pale-skinned woman with reddish-blond hair, a nearly nude, chubby toddler standing in her lap. She wears a loose, cherry-red gown, the baby has pale skin, reddish blond hair. A vibrant picture shows great details from era. -
The Renaissance
Elisabetta Sirani 1638-1665 was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker. She was one of the first women artists in early modern Bologna, who established an academy for other women artists. Undated oil on canvas painting, the young woman at the center of the artwork holds a tray filled with an abundance of gold and jewelry, symbolizing her generosity and lavishness. -
The Renaissance
Portrait of a Lady, called Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
Mary Beale - 1633 – October 8, 1699
Mary Beale was a portraitist and can be counted among the earliest women to make a career as a professional artist in England. Oil paint on canvas w640 x h710 x d77 mm. This portrait shows a young girl at a side profile with a seemingly incomplete background in the right half of the painting. She does have a slight whimsical smile on her face, maybe thinking of something funny. -
17th Century
Portrait of a Lady, called Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
Susan Penelope Rosse 1652–1700 - Portrait of a Lady, called Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
Susan Penelope Rosse was a British painter born in 1652. She developed her own practice as a portrait miniaturist.
This miniature is a portrait of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. She is looking slightly to the left, her brown hair has highlights in it that comes down to her shoulders. Is wearing a blue dress with a white collar only on the left breast. -
17th Century
Giovanna Fratellini - Self Portrait
Giovanna Fratellini - 1666 – 1731
Giovanna Fratellini was a Florentine artist during the Baroque period. Born in Florence as Giovanna Marrmocchini Cortesi. The painting is a self-portrait that shows the artist painting a picture of a man as she is looking back. Legend has it that the subject of the miniature was her son Lorenzo, a promising artist who died in 1729. Fratellini's signature elements were the fluttering ribbons she is jauntily wearing -
18th Century
Portrait of a Young Woman, 1774
Pastel on paper, 24 x 19 3/4 in
Marie-Geneviève Navarre - 1737 to 1795
Marie-Geneviève Navarre was born in Paris and studied art there with the pastel master Maurice Quentin de la Tour a royal portrait artist. She was a portrait artist and miniaturist who created artwork in pastels and oils, though she is best known for her pastels. Navarre became known as one of the "most esteemed pastellists of the 18th century. -
18th Century
Portrait of Princess Belozersky, 1798
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun -1755–1842
At 15 she was painting the aristocracy, in her twenties she was the favored painter of Marie-Antoinette, and by her thirties she was fleeing the French Revolution. She married Jacques François Le Sèvre, a jeweler, but even so Mademoiselle Vigée was expected to contribute to the support of her family and became a professional artist in her teens. -
19th Century
Veil of Mystery also known as Veiled Woman 1830
Sarah Miriam Peale 1800 – 1885
Sarah was one of the notable family of artists descended from the miniaturist and still-life painter James Peale, who was her father and Mary Claypoole, who was her mother. She was James Peale's youngest daughter and was trained by her father, and uncle Charles Willson Peale. The most popular artists of America of the 19th century with a mastery at drawing portraits, still life and landscapes. -
19th Century
Young girl with feather 1899
Minerva Josephine Chapman 1858-1947
Born in Sandbanks (now Altmar), New York. Chapman was known for her work in miniature portraiture, landscape, and still life. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, in 1876. Studied art privately with Annie C. Shaw, the first woman to be elected to the Chicago Academy of Design. One of the first students to enroll in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. -
Twentieth Century Women Artist (Europe)
Object, 1936
Méret Oppenheim, Berlin, Germany 1913 – 1985
Meret Oppenheim was a German-born Swiss artist and photographer. fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon.Key figure in the Surrealist movement, her work focused on the marginalization of women, but also the subversion of art itself. She attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and joined in the circles of the Surrealists. She famously posed for one of Man Ray’s most famous photographs Erotique Voilee (1933), posed nude covered ink. -
Twentieth Century Women Artist (America)
Young Woman 1937
Isabel Bishop American Portrait Painter 1902 - 1988
Isabel Bishop was born in Cincinnati but moved East in 1918, where she enrolled at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and then the Art Students League, beginning in 1920. In the city around Union Square, Bishop was inspired by the bustle of urban life, particularly by the young women of New York, who were entering the work force in ever increasing numbers. -
Late 20th Century/21st Century
Bowl ca. 1960-1965 Modern, clay, pigment.
Lucy Martin Lewis 1898-1992
Lucy Martin Lewis, Acoma Pueblo Potter, and Matriarch. She was born in Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. Since there were no schools on the mesa, Lewis received no formal education or art classes. She learned pottery as a young child from her great-aunt and other Acoma Pueblo women. Lewis was instrumental in reviving eleventh-century, Mimbres-style pottery, characterized by black lines on white slip. -
Twentieth Century Women Artist (America)
We Shall Overcome 1988
Loïs Mailou Jones American - 1905–1998
Born in Boston, Massachusetts was an American painter and educator whose works reflect a command of widely varied styles, from traditional landscape to African-themed abstraction. Jones was reared in Boston by middle-class parents who nurtured her precocious talent and ambition. After graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, she received her graduate degree in design from the Design Art School of Boston in 1928. -
Late 20th Century/21st Century
MONUMENT 2008
Jenny Holzer – 1950
Jenny Holzer was born on July 29,1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio. Originally aspiring to become an abstract painter, her studies included general art courses at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (1968–1970). She then completed her BFA at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio,1972. Holzer is known as a neo-conceptual artist. Most of her work is presented in public spaces and includes words and ideas, in the form of word art also known as text art. -
Twentieth Century Women Artist (Europe)
Books Without Words (in a book with words) 2010
Elisabetta Gut, Rome, Italy 1934 –
Born in Rome to a Swiss father and Italian mother, Gut has lived in Italy most of her life. During World War II, to protect her from the horrors of war, her parents sent her to Switzerland. The trauma of separation gravely affected her behavior, and after returning to Rome in 1945, she had difficulty communicating with people. In Rome she attended the Institute of Art.