She sat there, still, but her heart was pounding. He stood behind the easel, his expression inscrutable. She tried to relax but she was troubled. He’d painted her sister and another woman and both had turned up dead. Was he responsible or was someone else? He didn’t look like a murderer. No, it couldn’t be… Read More It Couldn’t Be…
This painting of a young woman looking through a telescope is by Pietro Rotari, an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Verona. His career took him from place and he died in 1762 at the age of 55 in St Petersburg where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court.… Read More Women Astronomers
“Why can’t your painting be beautiful like the rest of these?” Jonah’s mother demanded. “I’m not good at painting,” Jonah replied and was rewarded with a censorious look. “That’s because you don’t put much effort into it. How do you expect to be good at something when you don’t try hard enough at it? … Read More No Aptitude
Notes to Women 