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@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:54 PM

Page from The Story of #SaintFrancis, c.1460-85, by #SibyllaVonBondorf (or #SibillaVonBondorf, #SibillaDeBondorff; German, c. 1450-1524). Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; source, www.frieze.com/article/obse... #FeastOfStFrancis #womenartists #artherstory #nuntastic #StFrancis

A manuscript illumination featuring bright, primary colors and a flat visual plane. In the center is a tonsured St. Francis, his halo a gold disc behind his head, standing in his signature robe with the rope belt, preaching to 7 small white animals - maybe lambs, maybe goat kids - under an apple tree. He holds both hands in front of him; his left is raised as though in benediction, and with his right, he points with his forefinger toward his left hand. At the far left of the artwork is a shorter tonsured figure, also wearing a Franciscan habit, hand lifted, palms together in prayer. Suspended in the air above both figures are three blond female beings, presumably angels. The one in green at left plays a harp; the one in the middle in red holds up their hands, palms out; and the one at right in pink holds a gray object (maybe a pan flute?).

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 6:40 PM

Opening soon at UCLA's Hammer Museum -

Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
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The show runs Oct 11, 2026 - Feb 28, 2027

#womenartists #artherstory

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:25 PM

Mary Magdalene Holding a Perfume Jar, n.d., by #ÉlisabethSophieChéron (French, 1648-1711), who was born #otd, Oct 3. Held by Musée des beaux-arts, Rennes; source, www.facebook.com/female.artis...

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A bust length depiction against a black background of a white-skinned, long-haired woman turning her eyes upward as she tilts her head slightly toward the viewer's right. Both of her hands rest on the top of an opaque jar, which is a slightly darker shade of white than her scoop-necked blouse.

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 4:47 PM

Offered today in the Arader Galleries October 2026 Auction - Extraordinary Works of Art & American History -

Still life with flowers in an elaborate vase
#GiovannaGarzoni
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A tempera on vellum drawing of a bouquet of various flowers in a low, broad opaque vase with a foot, which sits on a small marble table/surface. The predominant blossom color is white, with touches of pink, blue, or orange/rust. There are almost no leaves.

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 4:36 PM

Opened today at Museum Panorama Mesdag in The Hague -

Betzy Akersloot-Berg: One of a Kind
panorama-mesdag.nl/en/press/pre...

The show runs thru Feb 28, 2027

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@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 4:20 PM

Enter the #ArtHerstory / @storiesfromtheart.bsky.social giveaway by taking our latest quiz!

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@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 4:18 PM

Now open at Lincoln Glenn Gallery -

250 Years: American #WomenArtists and the Nation’s Story
www.lincolnglenn.com/exhibitions/...

The show is on thru December 4, 2026

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@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 9:11 PM

Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for #WomenArtists in Rural Britain by Kristin Bluemel
Reviewed by Paula Derdiger for @mmodernity.bsky.social
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Publisher: @uminnpress.bsky.social

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A book cover with the title printed sideways up the left side, subtitle presented (in five rows) across the page next to it, with the author's name in all caps just below. The featured image is a colored engraving of wildflowers and berries on the vine, with a bird alighting on the top.

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 1:04 PM

La Course du Pot, 1657, engraved after Jacques Stella by #ClaudineBouzonnetStella (French, 1636-1697), who died #otd, Oct 1. Held at the British Museum, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #artherstory #womenartists #ClaudineStella

An engraving of four unclothed cherubs in a landscape: three of them stand at left, watching the fourth, who stands in the middle, blindfolded, raising a long pole above his head. In front of him, suspended from a tree branch, is the pot that he attempts to hit with the stick. Just under the image, at the center of the page, is the title "La Course du Pot." Under the title, there is italic text in French presented in two columns (of 3 rows each).

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:42 PM

Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar Consoling Job, c. 1730s, by #GiuliaLama (Italian, 1681-1747), who was born #otd, Oct 1. Private collection; source, commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gi... #womenartists #artherstory

A painting depicting a scene from the Book of Job. At left, a man wearing only a brown blanket half-lies with his hands clasped before his face. At right, four fully dressed men, depicted at half length, two of them wearing turbans, stand beside the bed or couch, facing the naked man and apparently discoursing with him.

@artherstory.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:12 PM

Yellow Hibiscus and Aster, from the Flowers of the Twelve Months: October, 1670-1710, by #YunBing (#Qingyu 清於; Haoru 浩如; Chinese, Qianlong era, active late C17th–early C18th). Held by Asian Art Museum, searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/5437... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

A delicate rectangular, portrait-mode painting against a gold background of a stalk of yellow hibiscus above, with two flower blossoms, arching from the right to the left side of the page; and below, as stalk of a plant with two red flowers next to a stalk of a plant with four flowers with blue petals and yellow centers. There are two square-shaped red stamps, one over the other, in the bottom left corner of the work.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 5:09 PM

#ArtHerstory's Sept newsletter is now published on Substack! Read about our current giveaway, and about
new exhibitions that focus on historic women artists; a lengthy list of new publications; and some eye-popping acquisitions news and auction results.

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@ienvdpol.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 2:03 PM

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@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:55 PM

A glass with flowers on a table…, 1752–1808, by #MagdaleneMargretheBärens (Danish, 1737–1808), who was born #otd, Sept 30. Held by Statens Museum for Kunst, open.smk.dk/artwork/imag... #artherstory #womenartists

A round gouache drawing against a white nearly square backdrop, depicting all of the items listed in the full title of the artwork: “glass with flowers on a table; lying beside it are an apple, a cherry, a melon, and a cluster of redcurrants [these may be gooseberries?]; perched on the rim of the glass is a small bird—a Swedish chaffinch.” In the foreground at lower left is a brown-and-white oblong seashell with a spiral at its top (spiral pointing toward the center of the painting). At lower right is a bug or beetle in front of the apple.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 11:38 AM

#SaintJerome in the Wilderness, before 1700, #waxrelief by #CaterinaDeJulianis (Italian, active 1695-1742). Held by Harvard Art Museums, harvardartmuseums.org/collections/... #FeastOfStJerome #artherstory #womenartists #StJerome

A framed wax relief of a half-naked man with a bald head and a long beard, draped in a red cloak, sitting at the entrance of a cave, poring over a book with his head propped up on his left fist. A lion rests near him on the ground at lower left. In the background is a mountainous landscape.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 12:41 PM

Concert of angels / Concerto angelico, n.d., by Suor #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia (Italian, c. 1596-c. 1676). Held at Casale Monferrato, Museo Civico; source, artherstory.net/orsola-madda... #artherstory #womenartists #FeastOfTheHolyArchangels #FeastoftheArchangels #nuntastic

A painting that depicts four angels; their garments and their wings are predominantly gold, red, and green. According to Angela Ghirardi, the author of the blog post from which the digital image is sourced, “On the basis of characteristic attributes—the scale, the shield and the sword—one recognizes the archangel Michael on the left, intent on playing the violin. At the center the archangel Gabriel, identified by the lily, plays the lute. On the right, directing the music, is the archangel Raphael, with the score in his hand and a jar of ointment beside it. The attributes recall, in order, the Last Judgment with Saint Michael the Archangel weighing the souls and chasing the reprobates to hell; the annunciation of the archangel Gabriel bearing the lily of the Virgin; and the biblical story of Tobias who, helped by the archangel Raphael, cured his father’s blindness with the ointment. The fourth figure, squeezed between Michael and Gabriel, is devoid of attributes; this angel is represented in the act of singing, with eyes to the sky and a score in hand. It is perhaps Uriel, the least well known of the archangels, here called into service to complete the celestial musical quartet. At the right corner, Sister Orsola painted the fronds of a tree and roses, which according to some is almost a floral signature.”

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 12:55 PM

Self-Portrait, 1885, by #HelenAllingham (British, 1848-1926), who died 100 years ago #otd, Sept 28. Held by Burgh House; source, @Amy Lim’s #ArtHerstory guest post Helen Allingham’s Country Cottages: Subverting the Stereotype, artherstory.net/helen-alling... #womenartists

A bust-length, oval-shaped portrait within a paler rectangle of a white-skinned woman, brown hair pinned up, wearing a gold bead necklace and a dark dress with frilly white trim. Her body is turned slightly toward the left edge of the page, but her face turns toward her left shoulder to gaze directly at the viewer.