Shoe by Marc Jacobs
Posted in Clothing, Discussion points, Images of women, In the news..., arth460 on Sep 14th, 2007
For more information, see the article by Robin Givhan in The Washington Post, September 13, C1.
Posted in Clothing, Discussion points, Images of women, In the news..., arth460 on Sep 14th, 2007
For more information, see the article by Robin Givhan in The Washington Post, September 13, C1.
Posted in Discussion points, Early Modern, arth460 on Sep 12th, 2007
How might we summarize our discussion of art patronage in early modern Italy? Certainly, negotiation and mediation continue to be themes in our examination of women and Western art, as Heather’s discussion of Vittoria Colonna demonstrated. Joanna explored with us how some women, namely Isabella d’Este, could take on a type of art [...]
Posted in Images of women, arth460 on Sep 12th, 2007
A day late…but I found one last Mona Frida.
What a delight it was to come to duPont Monday morning and discover Mona Frida on my office door…
then Mona Frida everywhere in
Melchers! Just yesterday Mona Frida was everywhere…
Posted in Images of women, arth460 on Sep 5th, 2007
The following is from Martha Burtis, UMW’s Director of Instructional Technology:
Posted in Early Modern, arth460 on Sep 5th, 2007
How do women negotiate within the art world in early modern Italy? Can we make any generalizations? Keeping in mind that generalizations can be too broad!
In Vasari’s Life of Properzia de’ Rossi, he writes that Properzia, “through her husband as intermediary,” applied to the cathedral committee for an opportunity to work on the [...]
Posted in arth460 on Aug 28th, 2007
Blog Directory for Prof Och’s Art 460 Fall 2007