A Clara Peeters for the Mauritshuis

Guest post by Quentin Buvelot, Senior Curator, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands In 2012, the Mauritshuis in The Hague managed to acquire a particularly appealing painting by Clara Peeters, Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels (Fig. 1). Fig. 1,...

Susanna Horenbout, Courtier and Artist

Guest post by Kathleen E. Kennedy, Associate Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol Portrait miniature, 1534, by Hans Holbein; may be Susanna Horenbout (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; source, Wikipedia) Susanna Horenbout (c. 1500–c. 1554)...