We created this short video to help you discover a range of amazing women artists from pre-20th-century art history.
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There is a movement underway among researchers, museums, collectors, and the wider art world to recognise the contributions of women artists – and Lund Humphries is responding to this move!
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To celebrate Women’s History Month this year, we are collaborating with The De Morgan Foundation to learn more about the astonishing life and works of Victorian painter Evelyn De Morgan.
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At the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the largest ever exhibition of Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) is taking place - out of Vermeer’s 37 known paintings, 28 are on display in this show. We’ve put together all of the exhibition paintings here…
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The 19th-century Polish realist painter is considered the first Polish woman artist who achieved international recognition.
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Esme Garlake explores the parallels and differences between Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings at Tate Britain with portraits from pre-modern art history
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Explore our new series of short introductory videos, recently launched on our YouTube channel
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Richard Jacques explores the first exhibition by Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art, which spotlights 50 artworks from the Iberian peninsula.
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Dr Nicola Jennings, co-curator of the exhibition, looks at The Colour of Anxiety now showing at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, room by room…
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Count down to Christmas with a new piece of pre-modern art history from around the world each day…
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We have chosen 10 winter paintings by 10 different women artists, as a reminder of the beauty of the winter season.
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Later this month, two major exhibitions about Uzbekistan’s artistic and cultural heritage will open in Paris at the Louvre and at the Arab World Institute, bringing nearly two millennia of beautiful art to even more people.
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Whilst digital intervention in museums and art galleries may not always appeal to everyone, it can offer new points of entry for audiences who may not have felt able to engage with pre-modern artworks before.
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As part of Black History Month, we explore a selection of Black artists and photographers who have recreated famous paintings as part of their practice.
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We look more closely at the lives and careers of six Irish painters working before the 20th century.
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Esme Garlake asks whether an ecocritical re-reading of Giulio Romano’s fresco can help us to reflect on human reactions to disasters and conflict, as well as the more unexpected ways in which the masterpiece connects us to previous generations.
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Dive into this wonderful selection of paintings which depict bathers throughout art history.
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This month, The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London has agreed to return 72 objects - which were looted in 1897 by British colonists - to Nigeria.
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Jane Simpkiss investigates some of the fascinating women in Gainsborough’s portraiture, and what these images would have signified in Georgian England.
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