I attended a FREE lecture given by Dr. Mary Garrard at Rollins College last night and I am still reeling! The lecture, titled “Early Modern Feminism and the Dangerous Artemisia Gentileschi,” covered everything from Caravaggio to Kavanaugh, the Baroque period to the #MeToo movement, and so much more. One of the things that struck a […]
Read more "Dr. Mary D. Garrard"I invite you to check out my most recent article for ArtScene Press discussing the “Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art” exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. The following is a brief excerpt… “With an emphasis on biblical stories, the exhibition includes a variety of artistic interpretations of […]
Read more "“Dangerous Women” at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum"The story of the Magdalene is a wild, weird and complex one that is more mythic legend than factual event. For starters, throughout art history she is depicted as a sort of amalgam of a few different women mentioned in the Bible’s four gospels of the New Testament. Second, her story takes an extreme turn […]
Read more "Mary Magdalene"I recently visited the new exhibition, “Dangerous Women,” at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. I highly recommend this show to anyone who has a penchant for the Baroque period or who wants to explore art theory regarding the role of women in art. The show consists of 23 paintings culled from the collection of the […]
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The Wandering Art Historian 