Garzoni and Gluck is named for two artists, Giovanna Garzoni (1600-70) and Hannah Gluckstein (1875-1978). The former was an Italian still-life painter, calligrapher, and miniature portraitist who, like her Dutch contemporaries, was famed during her lifetime, but whose work was largely ignored by art historians until the latter part of the twentieth century. Born nearly three centuries later, Gluckstein (aka Gluck) was a critically successful British artist who played a crucial role in standardizing the colors of oil paints and defied gender norms. In her own sumptuously rendered painting Driscoll’s choice of subject matter and virtuosic use of medium pay homage to the anachronistic pair.

-Tanja L. Jones, Ph.D., Department of Art and Art History, The University of Alabama