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Sonja Drimmer

Sonja Drimmer is a historian of medieval art and architecture. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She may be seen @Sonja_Drimmer.

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How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Yael Rice and Sonja Drimmer December 11, 2020November 1, 2021

Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.

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Seeing the Bigger Picture on Public Memorials to Women

Avatar photo by Sonja Drimmer November 27, 2020November 25, 2020

Recent works, including monuments to Mary Wollstonecraft and Medusa, demonstrate that it’s not that women have a problem with public monuments; it’s that public monuments have a problem with us.

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