Comments on: Feel Art Again: “Gathering Pansies”

By: AndrÃ©a

AndrÃ©a — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:38:06 +0000

Jessy: Thanks for the suggestions!

By: Jessy

Jessy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:17:55 +0000

I apologize for the belated nature of this suggestion. I mainly specialize in Medieval/Renaissance art, so these names are what I remember from undergrad art history courses.

the Court of William the Conqueror, whose ladies made the “Bayeux Tapestry”
Hildegard of Bingien, an illuminator
Sofonisba Anguissola, painter
Lucia Anguissola, painter
Marietta Robusti (daughter of Tintoretto, who was a famous painter)
Anastaise, an illuminator of manuscripts
Catarina van Hemessen (German)
Judith Leyster, in National Gallery, Washington
Marie Elizabeth-Vigee Lebrun
Maria Cosway (who was intimate with Thomas Jefferson)
Angelica Kauffman (British; a recent monograph on her was published in 2006)
Christine de Pisan
Adelaide Labille-Giuard (enlightenment painter, worked closely with her husband’s science projects)

By: Therese

Therese — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:16:51 +0000

When I came to this post, it almost took my breath away. I LOVE this painting! I feel that I’m actually entering into the scene when I look at it.

As for the arm, Dave, I disagree. The extension of her shoulder, the degree to which it is forward, seems to be camouflaged by her long hair.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:47:23 +0000

Does anyone else think that the subject in the painting has a freakishly long left arm?

By: Mary Sue

Mary Sue — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:52:03 +0000

Now I want to know who the other English woman who exhibited at the Paris International Exhibition was.