Erika Gaffney
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Sr Acq Editor, Early Modern Studies, Amsterdam University Press. Comm Editor, Art History, Lund Humphries. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
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Starting my early modern module today with gender and marriage during the Reformation. Good topic to start with.
The European World, a textbook Chapter 4: gender and family
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Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out!

I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.

#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Imago Mundi
Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi
www.tandfonline.com
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Lady Charlotte Shreiber was a woman who subverted gendered norms and challenged Victorian conventions, Schreiber made major contributions to ceramic history and cultural education, and played an influential role in transnational artistic networks.
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New post on the Art Herstory blog!

A Year for Dutch and Flemish Women Artists
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We celebrate the ways in which Dutch & Flemish women artists are currently in the spotlight - at exhibitions, in auction and acquisitions news, & in new book publications!
A Year for Dutch and Flemish Women Artists, 2025-2026
A post about exhibitions of art in 2025, as well as new books, to do with early modern Dutch and Flemish women artists.
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Also - there's a new line of glorious #MariaSibyllaMerian merch!! These items - and more - are from Art Is NYC's new Merian line in the Woman Artists Collection.

See the full line at:
www.artisnyc.org/mariasybilla...

Museum store buyers, take note!
#hernaturalhistory
A photo of various objects featuring elements of a botanical drawing by Maria Sibylla Merian. In the center is a squarish notebook with a goldfinch pecking at a plant bud. On either side is a book mark and a pen/stylus. At top left is a recyclable tote with a red poppy. At top right is an umbrella with a light brown handle. At bottom is an eyeglass case, where again the bird features prominently.
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This Maria van Oosterwijck painting is on view now in the exhibition "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, nmwa.org/exhibitions/...

The museum is not subject to govt shutdown; and it offers free admittance for furloughed federal workers.
Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 | Exhibition | National Museum of Women in the Arts
nmwa.org
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Bouquet of Flowers with a Blue Ribbon, 1680, by #MariaVanOosterwijck (#MariaVanOosterwyck; Dutch, 1630–1693). Held by @artinstitutechi.bsky.social, artic.edu/artworks/264...

#artherstory #womenartists
A still life painting of a garland of flowers and fruit, including bunches of red and green grapes at the bottom, tied together at the top with a blue ribbon
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Art Herstory's Judith Leyster Self-Portrait Note Card

Artwork held at: The National Gallery of Art; currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

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Usually $3.95, this autumn Dutch or Flemish women artist cards are now $2.57 (w/ free shipping).
Portrait mode note card, open face down to show front and back covers. The front reproduces a self-portrait of a C17th woman artist in a purple gown with many gold buttons up the visible sleeve, a white head covering and a large disc of a white collar that extends out over the dress in all directions. She is seated; her right elbow rests on the post of her chair, and her right hand holds a paintbrush. Her left hand rests in her lap, holding a palette. A painting is partially visible on the easel in front of her. On the back of the card is a thumbnail of the uncropped painting, plus text about artist and artwork, and branding info/icons.
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A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good!
🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️
Entrance to the new exhibition "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600" at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. Albrecht Dürer's famous woodcut of the Rhinoceros. Partially disassembled Schlüsselfelder Ship from 1503, to show how the nef can be filled with wine. The Archangel Raphael and Tobias in limewood made by Veit Stoß, 1516.
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There is a wonderful book about the artist in the #IlluminatingWomenArtists series from @lhartbooks.bsky.social & Getty Publications -

Gesina ter Borch,
by Adam Eaker (Metropolitan Museum of Art), www.lundhumphries.com/products/ges...

shop.getty.edu/products/ges...
Front cover of book, featuring self-portrait of the C17th artist holding a fan in her lefthand, with a dark blue curtain behind her.
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Akademiehuis in Zwolle celebrates C17th artist Gesina ter Borch! Meet the artist during lectures, concerts and other events -
www.gesinaengezienworden.nl/en

Her art remained unknown for centuries. This exhibition brings her work and perspective to life, connecting her stories to the world of today.
Detail of a contemporary artwork, presumably by Jasper Abels, that superimposes blue and black swirls over a C17th self-portrait by Dutch artist Gesina ter Borch, with a keyhole motif focused on the artist's left eye.
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For display by Kunsthandel P. de Boer at PAN Amsterdam -

Clara Peeters
Antwerpen 1588/89-1636 Gent
Fruitbasket and covered glass goblet
Panel 29,5 x 40,4 cm
Signed Clara P. lower right
A luscious still life painting of an open-weave tan wicker basket filled with fruit - apples, greeen and red grapes, a pear - sitting on a ledge, against a brown background. At the right of the painting, also sitting on the ledge next to the basket, are a gilt covered goblet and a glass roemer, and a few nuts - hazel, and maybe walnuts? In the lower right corner is the artist's signature.
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Art Herstory's Monkshood Note Card
Artist: Alida Withoos
Artwork held at: Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

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This autumn, we offer a 35% discount on all cards reproducing works by Dutch or Flemish women artists! The cost of this card, usually $3.95, is now $2.57 (w/ free shipping).
Photo of note card open to show front and back. The front depicts a sprig of monkshood in bloom (also known as aconitum, aconite, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, devil's helmet, or blue rocket). The same image is shown as a thumbnail on the back cover, along with the artwork's "tombstone" information and the branding verbiage with the Art Herstory logo, social media icons, and a QR code directing readers to the Alida Withoos resource page on the Art Herstory website.
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Online Lecture | October 16
🕠 5:30–7:30 pm (CEST) | 💻 Online| Free

This next session of AGENART will explore Titian’s Saint Margaret—painted for Mary of Hungary—in the context of female artistic agency within the Spanish Habsburg court.
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Bust of a Girl, n.d., by #JeannePhiliberteLedoux (French, 1767-1840), who died #otd, Oct 12. Held by Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Re... #womenartists #artherstory
A painting of the bust of an unsmiling, white-skinned, brown-haired, blue-eyed young lady wearing a white gauzy scarf over a light blue dress. Her hair is held back with a blue ribbon or thin blue cloth tied at the top.
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Art Herstory's Rachel Ruysch Flowers in a Glass Vase Note Card | Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts

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35% off sale in honor of the Ruysch exhibition at the MFA Boston!
A note card open facedown to show the front and back covers. On the front cover is a glorious array of flowers, mostly in colors of pink, red and white, sitting in a glass vase on a stone ledge. There is a butterfly at the bottom of the painting, against the edge of the ledge. On the back is a thumbnail version of the painting, surrounded by text about the artist and the painting, with branding information at the bottom.
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Did you know that the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Shop offers browsers the opportunity to shop the Rachel Ruysch exhibition?!

Visit mfashop.com/rachel-ruysc...
A screenshot of just some of the Ruysch-related merchandise currently on sale in the shop at the MFA Boston. This photo shows two rows of four products each, including a book, a throw pillow, a boxed puzzle, a scarf, a rectangular magnet reproduction of a floral still life painting, some moth shaped magnets, a coaster set, and a tray featuring a reproduction of a floral still life painting.