Pure pleasure abounds in Rachel Ruysch's paintings on view at the Toledo Museum of Art-the first major exhibition dedicated to this extraordinary artist, organized with the Alte Pinakothek in Munich ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the height of her fame, the Dutch golden age artist Maria van Oosterwijck counted Louis XIV of France, the ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

In the world of Zheng Fenglin’s painting, elements of Dutch Golden Age still lifes, Surrealism, and Eastern philosophy blend together seamlessly, creating a tapestry of symbolism and quiet reflection.

From Heather Mac Donald’s speech at the New Criterion’s April 24 gala: Consider a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show featured the Met’s extraordinary collection of paintings ...

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 ...