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‘Old masters too’: Ghent exhibition celebrates female artists of the baroque
- The Ghent Museum of Fine Arts opens a show on more than 40 Baroque-era women artists from the Low Countries.
- The exhibit seeks to restore women to one of art history’s most feted periods, beyond Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Dyck.
- Judith Leyster’s self-portrait marks her arrival as an established artist in Haarlem.
- Maria van Oosterwijck’s still lifes adorned European palace walls.
- The show includes Artemisia Gentileschi and Catrina Tieling as part of the broader rediscovery.
- The catalogue notes 179 women were active in the Low Countries’ art economy.
- The exhibition notes painting was not the only art women excelled at, such as lace-making and paper-cutting.
- The Guardian highlights the exhibition’s aim to reflect on why women’s artworks were hidden for so long.
- Curators describe the project as a rediscovery mission for forgotten Baroque women artists.
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