A Year for Dutch and Flemish Women Artists

History’s Dutch and Flemish women artists are having a moment! Currently there are at least three art exhibitions focused on early modern female makers of the Low Countries. Three of these shows incorporate an international traveling component. In addition,...

Rachel Ruysch: The Art of Nature

Guest post by Stephanie Dickey, art historian Feature image: Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers, 1709, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Promised Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterlo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art Picture this. The year is...

Louise Moillon: A Pioneering Painter of Still Life

Guest post by Lesley Stevenson, London Metropolitan University Louise Moillon, Basket of Damsons, 1629, private collection; source, Wikipedia Lowizo de Molyne, Lousea Mullon, Loweza Mollon: who was Louise Moillon? On the second floor of the Louvre Museum is...