Directory of Ruysch, Rachel Resources

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This category lists websites about Rachel Ruysch, Dutch painter born in The Haag b. 1664, and living in Amsterdam to 1750.
She specialised in painting in oils of newly imported flowers for the garden, in a still life setting featuring insects.

Resources in This Category

• BBC Radio 4: Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies, and Other Flowers in an Urn by Rachel Ruysch

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wpgjm
  Twenty eight minute audio, with link to a high resolution copy of the original oil, describing the component flowers and insects, in this still life oil painting, and related history of the painter.

• Google Arts & Culture: Rachel Ruysch

  https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/entity/m05mcs5
  Collection of digitized copies of her still life flower oils, painted over the turn of the seventeenth century, in high resolution, with provenance, dimensions of originals held in from museums worldwide.

• Khan Academy: Rachel Ruysch, Fruit and Insects

  https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/holland/v/ruysch-flowers-insects
  Video link for her "Fruit and Insects" painted in oil on wood in 1711, with transcript as an educational resource with links to social; media.

• Web Gallery of Art: Rachel Ruysch

  http://www.wga.hu/html_m/r/ruysch/
  Photo gallery of still life oil paintings combining flowers and insects, in their searchable database of European fine arts and architecture from 8th to 19th centuries.

• Wikipedia: Rachel Ruysch

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Ruysch
  Article updated by the public with bibliography, photographs, development of her style, success, references and links to related articles.

 

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