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Hi, I'm Lyra and I make videos about history and art.
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The Art of Sofonisba Anguissola: A Late Renaissance painter #arthistory #history #paintings
Despite the international renown she enjoyed during her lifetime, with Baroque painter Anthony van Dyck even visiting her in Sicily to paint her portrait, it was only centuries later, in the 1970s, that she was rediscovered.
With the rise of the feminist movement, her fame and significance were br… Nameless and Friendless (1857) by Emily Mary Osborn #art #painting
Emily Mary Osborn’s Nameless and Friendless (1857) is a poignant depiction of the challenges women artists faced in Victorian England. At its center is a young woman, dressed in black, anxiously fidgeting with a piece of string as she offers her painting to an art dealer. Her younger brother, carry… The Paintings of Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858–1949) #art #arthistory #paintings
Elbridge Ayer Burbank’s depictions of Native Americans are among his most famous paintings. After the surrender of Geronimo, during a time when the idea of “Kill the Indian, Save the Human” was beginning to take hold in the American political landscape, Burbank became concerned with portraying as m…