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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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This Sunday, 11/16, is the 400th anniv of the passing in 1625 of Renaissance painter #SofonisbaAnguissola. Art Herstory commemorates the moment with a (very) limited edition hard cover journal:

artherstory.net/product/sofo...

Or on Etsy - www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
Picture of a white woman holding up a journal that reproduces a Sofonisba Anguissola painting, under a museum case in which the original painting is on display.
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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I am so excited to participate on this panel Sat, Nov 15 -

Is still life still relevant?

I get to talk with Bryn Schockmel & Derin Tanyol, Sharon Core, & Amanda Malmstrom about women & still life—the subject of 4 shows (!) this fall at The Hyde Collection.
www.hydecollection.org/event/panel-...
A sumptuous 17th-century food still life painting by Fede Galizia, featuring at left a woven wicker basket heaped with pears. In front of the basket and next to it sit some loose apples. Front and center are three cucumbers, behind which and toward the right edge of the painting is a melon with about a quarter cut out of it, exposing the interior of the fruit. In the back is a shallow white bowl which contains a pile of figs. The painting is called "Still Life with Apples, Pears, Cucumbers, Figs, Plums, and a Melon." According to the museum's object page, "An extremely skilled and detailed still life, the painting inspires the viewer to meditate on the splendor of nature. In the early modern period, such a work would have held both religious and scientific significance, allowing the viewer to be spiritually moved as well as marvel at the new scientific discoveries made possible by the recent invention of the microscope."
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Commemorating the Cremonese painter, 400 years on -

Sofonisba Anguissola Lined Hardcover Journal
10% discount via Etsy thru 11/13
etsy.me/48SFjjP
Photo of a hardcover journal that depicts on its front cover an oval self-portrait of the young Sofonisba Anguissola holding a gold medallion with a monogram. The background is black. At the bottom, the attached ribbon bookmark is visible emerging from the book. The picture is taken at an oblique angle to include the page edge.
October 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth is author of this recently published book -

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector
www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...
@lhartbooks.bsky.social Sept 2025
Book jacket - a colorful porcelain artwork against a black background, with title and author info in white text.
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social

is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...

The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Book cover in with hot pink background, title reversed out of lavender block. At top center is an early modern botanical drawing of two bulb plants.
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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There's a fabulous new book about the artist -

Maria Sibylla Merian
By Catherine Powell-Warren

Available to UK/ROW, @lhartbooks.bsky.social:
www.lundhumphries.com/products/mar...

Available in US/North America, Getty Publications:
shop.getty.edu/products/mar...

#newbooksaboutwomenartists
Book front cover featuring plant, butterflies and a chrysalis (?). Title, author and publisher info are presented toward the bottom in black type within a white box. The picture presents an oblique view of the spine. A book cover, the primary image of which is a leafy plant with a caterpillar crawling up the stem, and a purplish butterfly in the upper right corner. The title is written vertically down the right edge in green text. The author's name is presented in brown text across the bottom.
October 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) whose scholarship focuses on histories of medieval (ca. 500s-1400s) European art and architecture in the world.

apply.interfolio.com/174923
A digital job announcement, with text above in yellow against a rust background, and below a medieval scene of an audience before a king or potentate seated on a throne.
October 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Coming up Oct 17 -

Symposium | Envisioning Gender and Sexuality in Premodern European Prints
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
kam.illinois.edu/event/sympos...
Mostly b&w digital event poster with a portion of an engraving depicting Adam, Eve & the snake.
October 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Fri., Oct. 17 -

Marco Faini speaks on “Marvelous Monsters: Crime, Cheap Print, and the Construction of Otherness in Early Modern Italy (XVI-XVIII centuries)”
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
www.hallwalls.org/perflit/6677...

Free & public; complimentary wine & light fare served before the talk.
A digital poster with text about an upcoming talk and a bust-length photo of the speaker
October 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Research in Action: “Portrait of an Unknown Lady ”
Free admission; preregistration required
Tues, Nov 18
Study Room, Yale Center for British Art

Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón, Residential Fellow at the YCBA, highlights Lucas Horenbout’s Portrait of an Unknown Lady.

britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-...
A miniature painting of a Tudor woman's bust, in a round silver-colored frame with a loop at the top for a chain.
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Thursday, 23 Oct at the V&A -

Lunchtime Lectures: The Extraordinary Art Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber
by @carolinemccaff.bsky.social, author of the same-named book, just published by @lhartbooks.bsky.social

Free; no booking is required.

www.vam.ac.uk/event/E7WLeV...
Screenshot from event website, featuring event title & info and a detail of a photo of a ceramic art object.
October 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I am excited that this marvelous book is now published! Lady Charlotte was extraordinary in *many* ways, really...

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector
By Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth / @carolinemccaff.bsky.social
www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...
@lhartbooks.bsky.social 2025
Five photos of the same book - on the top row are pics of the front and back covers. On the bottom row are three pics of internal pages, showing both pics and text.
September 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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I am *ecstatic* today to have received copies of the latest volumes in the series "Illuminating Women Artists"!

Josefa de Óbidos
by Carmen Ripollés / @cripolles.bsky.social
www.lundhumphries.com/products/jos...

Maria Sibylla Merian
by Catherine Powell-Warren
www.lundhumphries.com/products/mar...
A photo of 2 books side by side on a cloth surface.
September 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Coming up Sept 16 at @notredame.bsky.social -

Art, Politics, and Ritual in the Clementine Jubilee Year 1525
A talk by by Sheryl E. Reiss

arts.nd.edu/events/2025/...
Digital event poster with black text on a beige background. At right is an oval framed picture of a late medieval pope in a yellow robe, in the act of mounting something (a crucifix?) onto a wall.
September 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Tonight at the Dallas Museum of Art -

Past, Present, and Future of Collecting Early Modern Works on Paper
dma.org/programs/eve...

A conversation w/ Emily Friedman, Jonathan Bober & Carolyn Bullard to explore the state of the field of early modern prints and drawings.
A digital event poster with most of the text reversed out of a green background. The featured image is the b&w engraving Amadeus Berruti with Austeritas, Amititia, and Amor, 1517, by Marcantonio Raimondi.
September 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social -

Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600
Edited by Luis Ribeiro, David Salomoni, & Henrique Leitão
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Available for download as #OpenAccess -
admin.library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
A book cover, with a detail at the top of a drawing including a ship on a body of water. The bottom half of the book is aquamarine, containing the book title and the publisher's name and logo.
September 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Read the Dramatic C17th Memoirs of Alice Thornton, Who Wrote Four Versions of Her Life Story
Researchers have digitized all 4 volumes, which offer a compelling window into a tumultuous period in English history
by Sonja Anderson for Smithsonian Magazine
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
A photo of a double-page spread of a handwritten book.
August 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Readers interested in women's contributions to the decorative arts will also be interested in this imminently forthcoming book:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector
by @carolinemccaff.bsky.social
www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...
@lhartbooks.bsky.social, Sept 2025
Book jacket - a colorful porcelain artwork against a black background, with title and author info in white text.
August 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Beyond Blue and White
The Hidden History of Delftware and the Women Behind the Iconic Ceramic
By Genevieve Wheeler Brown
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Beyond...

"... allows us to craft a more complete picture of female experience through the lens of material culture."
A book cover with mostly white text reversed out of an azure background. The image is a silhouette of a woman, filled in with Delftware designs, positioned in the right half of the book cover.
August 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Very excited to have received my copy of Breeze Barrington’s new book “The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court"!

www.breezebarrington.com/the-graces
Bloomsbury Publishing UK, 2025
A photo of a book sitting on a table with wooden slats. The art on the book cover is a 17th-century drawing depicting a woman, and flowers.
August 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Now available at IPG: Independent Publishers Group!

The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander
1837-1917
By Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, @wellesley.edu
www.ipgbook.com/the-art-and-...

Published by @lhartbooks.bsky.social, Feb 2025
Cover of the book, an outdoor scene showing Alexander's "Decorating a Shrine" with two girls accompanying an older one who places flowers in the niche.
August 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Breeze Barrington talks with Elinor Evans on the History Extra podcast for Life of the Week! They discuss how Maria of Modena navigated a foreign court, vicious anti-Catholic sentiment, and personal loss, to emerge as a resilient and principled queen.

Available now wherever you get your podcasts.
Square HistoryExtra podcast logo, with historic figures in black and white in the background against a sea-green backdrop. In the foreground at right is an antique looking head on a pedestal, carved in white marble, wearing noise-canceling headphones.
August 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Coming up October 1-3 -

The Global Baroque: Two-Way Relations
Puebla de los Ángeles, Mexico
A symposium focused on Baroque Art in the Latin American territories
jovenesceiba.com/vii-simposio...
Digital event poster with text about the symposium and an image of a long-haird figure in a white gown, hands clasped at chest level in prayer.
August 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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And I am also very excited about another book due to be published exactly 1 month from today, on Sept 1 -

Maria Sibylla Merian
by Catherine Powell-Warren

@lhartbooks.bsky.social, www.lundhumphries.com/products/mar...

Getty Publications, shop.getty.edu/products/mar...

#newbooksaboutwomenartists
Book front cover featuring plant, butterflies and a chrysalis (?). Title, author and publisher info are presented toward the bottom in black type within a white box. The picture presents an oblique view of the spine. A book cover, the primary image of which is a leafy plant with a caterpillar crawling up the stem, and a purplish butterfly in the upper right corner. The title is written vertically down the right edge in green text. The author's name is presented in brown text across the bottom.
August 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Exactly one month to go until publication - on Sept 1 - of

Josefa de Obidos
by @cripolles.bsky.social

Co-published by @lhartbooks.bsky.social, www.lundhumphries.com/products/jos...

and Getty Publications, shop.getty.edu/products/jos...
Book cover depicting a seated Madonna holding the baby Jesus in her lap. He leans forward to a kneeling woman holding his hand in both of hers, reading his palm. Two children and two women, one holding two birds (ducks or geese?) look on. The book's title is printed in black, inside a white block of color, across most of the bottom of the cover. Cover of North American edition of Josefa de Obidos, on which is depicted a queenly looking Madonna and a curly-haired Child with a halo and scepter, with cherubs in the background. The book title is printed sideways down the right edge of the cover.
August 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM