Juana Romani, La fille de Théodora (A Dark-Haired Beauty), 1898, oil on panel, 81.3 × 63.8 cm, current location unknown. Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Origins and migration Juana Romani was born Giovanna Carolina Carlesimo in Velletri on 30 April 1867, in circumstances far removed from the Parisian art world in which she would laterContinue reading “Giovanna Carolina Carlesimo / Juana Romani (1867–1923): Art, Identity and Self-Fashioning between Italy and Paris”
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Diana Di Rosa (1602–1643): An Emerging Artistic Identity
Introduction Diana Di Rosa occupies an unusual position in the history of seventeenth-century Neapolitan painting. Celebrated in later tradition as “Annella di Massimo”, she acquired a reputation that rested as much on the dramatic story of her life as on the paintings associated with her. Yet while Artemisia Gentileschi has generated an extensive modern literature,Continue reading “Diana Di Rosa (1602–1643): An Emerging Artistic Identity”
Inner Surfaces 