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Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun's Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan, Indian ambassador to France, sells at auction for $7.2 million—a new record for any female artist of the pre-modern era. Signed and dated lower right: L. Vigée Le Brun / 1788.
International conference “Singular Feminine: Women and the Arts in the Spanish Court in the Early Modern Age,” Madrid, February 20-22, 2019 https://t.co/LCQDHr3nrg
Market, baker and butcher, tailor, apothecary: Frescos from Castello di Villa-Challant, Issogne (Valle d'Aosta), c. 1489-1502
Marco Benefial, St. Margaret of Cortona Finds the Body of her Lover, 1729-1732, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome (for the church of S. Maria in Ara Coeli). After her dog leads her to the corpse of her murdered lover in the woods, she turns a life of piety and poverty.
Maria Sibylla Merian, Metamorphosis of a Caterpillar to a Butterfly, 1679, 19.2 x 15.5 cm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
L: Marcello Venusti, detail of Last Judgment (after Michelangelo), c. 1549, before draperies were added R: Last Judgment as it appears today