by wpengine | Feb 6, 2020 | News/Blog
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,...
by wpengine | Jan 7, 2020 | News/Blog
CODART votes the Toledo Museum of Art’s painting into its new Canon Guest post by Lawrence W. Nichols, Senior Curator, the Toledo Museum of Art Lawrence W. Nichols with Floral Still Life, 1726, by Rachel Ruysch. Toledo Museum of Art. Against a dark background,...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 22, 2019 | Exhibits, News/Blog
Thoughts on an important focus exhibition There are still a couple of weeks in which to see “Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). If you live in the DC area, or if you visit the area over the holidays, make a point...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 8, 2019 | News/Blog
A new show opens this week, featuring works by highly successful female artists in the 17th- and early 18th-century Netherlands A Still Life of Lilies, Roses, Iris, Pansies, Columbine, Love-in-a-Mist, Larkspur & other Flowers in a Glass Vase on a Table Top,...
by Erika Gaffney | Jun 3, 2019 | News/Blog
A Birthday Tribute to “the Amsterdam Pallas” Posy of flowers, with a red admiral butterfly, on a marble ledge, c. 1700, by Rachel Ruysch. Private collection; source, Wikimedia. Three hundred fifty-five years ago on this day, June 3, Rachel Ruysch was...
