Din svenska guide i Rom & Latium

10/02/2025

07/02/2025

Baldakinen i Peterskyrkan skiner vackert efter restaurering inför jubelåret 2025. Jubelåret kallas även det Heliga året och firas vart 25 år.

24/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 24 - Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄

Plautilla Bricci (1616-1705?) was a 17th-century Roman architect, painter and sculptor; she was the only female architect of her day.

Plautilla Bricci, Madonna col Bambino, 1640, Basilica di Santa Maria in Montesanto






More info about Plautilla Bricci: https://artherstory.net/plautilla-bricci-artist-architettrice/.

19/12/2024

Advent Calender, December 19 (sorry one day late)

On request today we go to Sundborn and Lilla Hyttnäs. No photos allowed inside so the third and fourth photo is from: https://www.carllarsson.se/

Karin Larsson, Lilla Hyttnäs, Sundborn, Sweden

Karin Bergöö Larsson (1859–1928) was a groundbreaking artist whose approach to textiles and design ushered in a new era of interior design and established the iconic Swedish style that continues to inspire contemporary artists worldwide. The floral motifs, vivid colors, and charming simplicity of her style remain heavily influential nearly a century after her death, inspiring both independent makers and major brands like IKEA.






More info about Karin Larsson: https://www.carllarsson.se/en/carl-and-karin/karin/

17/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 17

Charlotte Bonaparte, Self-portrait, 1834, Museo Napoleonico, Rome

Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte (1802 – 1839) was the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, the older brother of Emperor Napoleon I, and Julie Clary. She was active as an artist.She studied engraving and lithography in Paris with the artist Louis Léopold Robert.






More info about Charlotte Bonaparte:
http://bonespirit.provincia.lucca.it/en/default/615/charlotte-napol-eacute-one-bonaparte.html

16/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 16

We leave Italy for Stockholm again.

Lena Cronqvist, Madonnan (The Madonna), 1969
Modern Museum, Stockholm
(The artwork is not on display now)

Using herself as her model, Lena Cronqvist, born 1938, builds psychologically intense scenes that seem to pinpoint the most universal experiences even when based on her own personal life. She explores family roles, such as being a child,      sibling, parent, or life partner.Cronqvist belongs to a generation of artists who began highlighting the female narrative perspective in art in the late 1960s. This was a time when the feminist movement declared that the personal is political. In “The Madonna”, we see a mother with her infant in her arms, struggling to make ends meet.The title refers to Christian cult images where baby Jesus, the centre of the world, is depicted in the arms of his earthly mother.






More info about Lena Cronqvist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Cronqvist

15/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 15

Angelika Kauffmann, Ritratto di giovinetta in veste di baccante, 1801.
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini

Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807) was one of the most celebrated artists of the 18th century. Known for her celebrity portraits and pioneering history paintings, Angelica Kauffman helped to shape the direction of European art. She painted some of the most influential figures of her day – queens, countesses, actors and socialites – and she reinvented the genre of history painting by focusing largely on female protagonists from classical history and mythology.






More info about Angelika Kauffmann:
https://www.angelika-kauffmann.de/en/biography/

14/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 14

Right now there is an exhibition in Rome about female artists active in Rome. Many new names there for me as well. https://www.museodiroma.it/it/mostra-evento/roma-pittrice-le-artiste-roma-tra-il-xvi-e-xix-secolo

Emma Gaggiotti-Richards, La famiglia Gaggiotti-Richards, (The Gaggiotti-Richards family), 1853 (around)
Museo di Roma, Gabinetto delle Stampe.

Emma Gaggiotti Richards (1825 – 1912) was an Italian painter who was active not only in Italy but also in the United Kingdom. She completed five paintings for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.






More info about Emma Gaggiotti-Richards: https://www.rct.uk/collection/408920/a-self-portrait

13/12/2024

Advent Calenda, December 13

We stay in Sweden but from Stockholm we go to the little town of Skara and Västergötlands museum

Agnes de Frumerie, Kleopatra,1898

Agnes de Frumerie (1869-1937) was a Swedish artist who spent much of her career in France. She was born in Skövde and studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1886 to 1890. She lived in Paris from 1892 to 1923, where she studied with Rodin.






More info about Agnes de Frumerie:
https://skbl.se/en/article/AgnesdeFrumerie

12/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 12

We are staying in Sweden and Stockholm today.

Niki de Saint Phalles - Le Paradis fantastique 1967, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) was born in Neuilly, France, and grew up in New York. Her first exhibition took place in 1956 at Galerie Restaurant Gotthard in St. Gallen, Switzerland.






More info about Niki de Saint Phalle: https://nikidesaintphalle.org/niki-de-saint-phalle/biography/ #1930-1949

11/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 11

I took this photo a few years ago at the Modern Museum in Stockholm.

Hilma af Klint, Geometric Series V, 1920, Modern Museum, Stockholm



Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian.

More info about Hilma af Klint: https://hilmaafklint.se/about-hilma-af-klint/

10/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 10

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Verkündigung (Annunciation), around 1905, Vatican Museums, Vatican City






During her short life, Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) radically charted her own path, exploring the singular aspects of the feminine experience in a bold style that foreshadowed Expressionism.

More info about Paula Modersohn-Becker: https://www.moma.org/artists/4037

09/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 9

Today we go to Madrid in Spain.

Georgia O’Keeffe, White Iris No. 7, 1957, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art.






More info about Georgia O’Keeffe:https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/about-georgia-okeeffe/

08/12/2024

Advent Calender December 8

Today we are back in Florence.

Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) , The Last Supper, 1550s Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Plautilla Nelli was a self-taught nun-artist and the first ever known female Renaissance painter in Florence. She is one of only four women artists mentioned in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists She was a nun of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine in Florence.





More about Plautilla Nelli: http://advancingwomenartists.org/artists/plautilla-nelli

07/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 7





Stockholm,Sweden again with an American artist.

Judy Chicago, Car Hood, 1964 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Judy Chicago (born 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture.

More info about Judith Chicago: https://judychicago.com

06/12/2024

Advent Calender, December 6

Lavinia Fontana, Cleopatra around 1580

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) is regarded as the first woman artist, working within the same sphere as her male counterparts, outside a court or convent.



More info about Lavinia Fontana: https://nmwa.org/art/artists/lavinia-fontana/

05/12/2024

Advent Calender December 5

Back in Rome today with a French artist.

Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun 1755-1842, Self portrait 1790 - Accademia Nazionale di San Luca

She was one of the great portrait artists of her day. At 15 she was painting the aristocracy, in her 20s she was the favoured painter of Marie-Antoinette, and by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution.




More info about Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun: https://nmwa.org/art/artists/elisabeth-louise-vigee-lebrun/

04/12/2024

Advent Calendar, December 4

Today we leave Italy and go to the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.

Sigrid Hjertén, Ateljéinteriör (Studio Interior), 1916 - Modern Museum, Stockholm

Sigrid Hjertén (1885 – 1948) was a Swedish modernist painter. Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernism. Periodically she was highly productive and participated in 106 exhibitions. She worked as an artist for 30 years before dying of complications from a lobotomy for schizophrenia.




More info about Sigrid Hjertén: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/sigrid-hjerten/