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This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers?

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters A portrait of Johanna Koerten, whose “thread painting” for the wife of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I sold for more money thanContinue reading “This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers?”

Claude Monet’s Beautiful Paintings of Venice Are Headlining an Exhibition for the First Time in More Than a Century

The paintings came from the French Impressionist’s time in Italy with his wife, Alice, in 1908 Kayla Randall – Digital Editor, Museums Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” according to Claude Monet. Yet he painted the Italian city anyway. In 1908, the famed French Impressionist and his wife, Alice, visited Venice. When they arrived, he told her thatContinue reading “Claude Monet’s Beautiful Paintings of Venice Are Headlining an Exhibition for the First Time in More Than a Century”