She was the queen of the 17th-century still life—and her patrons shelled out lavish sums to own her resplendent flowers. Rachel Ruysch, born in the Hague in 1664, rose to fame for her exquisitely ...

How did Rachel Ruysch, seen by some in the Dutch Golden Age as Holland’s most famous painter — for a while, she outsold Rembrandt — slip from grand renown to barely a footnote? Such are the vagaries ...

Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) was a remarkable painter during the Dutch Golden Age, celebrated for floral still lifes, a genre with a rich tradition in Dutch art. In Ruysch’s lifetime, it was typical for ...

From the December 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. To our eyes, the floral paintings of Rachel Ruysch might look merely decorative. But, as curator Bernd Ebert explains, they ...

Rachel Ruysch and Michiel van Musscher, "Rachel Ruysch" (1692), oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches (image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a rare ...

From 3D prints of Michelangelo to a debut for still life virtuoso Rachel Ruysch, these Old Master exhibitions are set on innovation. Fra Angelico, The Annunciation (c. 1440–1445). Image courtesy Museo ...

TOLEDO — The Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch won the lottery twice — in 1713 and 1723. Most people will be happy for you if you win the lottery once — even if you’re already quite well off, as Ruysch was.

The floral still lifes of Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) may look like pretty, decorative paintings to modern eyes, but they are extraordinarily detailed, innovative and, during her lifetime, fetched ...

Ruysch was born in The Hague in 1664. Her parents Maria Post (1643-1720) and Dr Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) had close ties with artistic and scientific communities, which afforded Ruysch many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOLEDO — The Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch won the lottery twice — in 1713 and 1723. Most people will be happy for you if you win ...

“Is it trivial to think of flowers in times like these?” asked Kelly Presutti in Art in America. Certainly not if the blossoms were painted by Rachel Ruysch, a Dutch artist who outsold Rembrandt in ...