History Archives - Infinite Women

Modernist art historian

Architectural historian and first permanent architecture critic for the New York Times.

First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)

Academic specialist in medieval Burgundian sculpture, particularly Claus Sluter, as well as medieval painting and illumination and costume studies.

Vassar Professor of Art and Director of the Vassar Art Gallery.

Scholar and catalogues raisonnés compiler; dealer of eighteenth-century French art; director of the Galerie Cailleux from 1982-1996

Religious poet and nun

Esteemed Chinese empress who dedicated her life to serving as a stabilizing force and wise advisor within the imperial court.

Polish historian and the first woman to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Zurich

French art historian and ethnographer Agnès Humbert was also a member of the French Resistance during World War II.