It's About Time: Sewing indoors

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Sewing indoors - 1600s

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) A Woman Spinning

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Woman Sewing

Godfried Schalcken (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1643-1706) Girl Threading a Needle

Willem van Mieris (Dutch painter, 1662-1747) The Spinner

Quiringh Gerritsz van Brekelenkam (Dutch artist, c 1622-1668) Reading Woman at the Spinning Wheel 1659

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599–1660), The Needlewoman c 1640

Johannes van der Aack (Dutch artist, 1636-c1680+) Old Woman Seated Sewing 1655

Judith Leyster (Dutch artist, 1609-1660) The Proposition 1631 Sewing or Writing?

Why blog & share resources?

On March 4, 2011, Emile de Bruijn of the National Trust in the UK, wrote on his blog "Treasure Hunt" of making history & art available to all: "Traditionally art history has been inherently elitist & exclusive, both socially & intellectually. Art tended to be commissioned by the upper classes. Connoisseurship was seen as a superior, refined skill & the products of art-historical scholarship were guarded almost as fiercely as the art itself."

On May 29, 2012, William Noel, now Director of Special Collections Center & Director of Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. University of Pennsylvania, told The TED Blog, "...digital data is not a threat to real data, it’s just an advertisement that only increases the aura of the original, so there just doesn’t seem to be any point in putting restrictions on the data. There is the further fact that the data is funded by taxpayers’ money. So it didn’t seem fair to limit what taxpayers could do with the data that they paid for."

On February 7, 2017, Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced a new policy: all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum's collection are now available for free & unrestricted use. "We have been working toward the goal of sharing our images with the public for a number of years. Our comprehensive & diverse museum collection spans 5,000 years of world culture & our core mission is to be open & accessible for all who wish to study & enjoy the works of art in our care. Increasing access to the Museum’s collection & scholarship serves the interests & needs of our 21C audiences by offering new resources for creativity, knowledge, & ideas."