Frederik Ruysch
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Frederik Ruysch was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts. His
Frederik Ruysch, by his son-in-law Juriaen Pool
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederick Ruysch by Jan van Neck (1683). Amsterdam Museum.
Illustration of critique of Thesaurus anatomicus... published in Acta Eruditorum, 1704
Rachel Ruysch
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Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch still-life painter from the Dutch Republic. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful
Frederik Ruysch
…the main goal of his collections was to create works of art that he believed showed the perfection of the human body. In her early years, his daughter Rachel Ruysch, a painter of still lifes, had helped him to decorate the collection with flowers, fishes, seashells and the delicate body parts with lace. By the time…
Portrait of Rachel Ruysch by Godfried Schalcken
Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies, and Other Flowers in an Urn on a Stone Ledge (1688)
Flowers on a tree trunk; this is a typical example of the "forest floor" genre made popular by Marseus van Schrieck
Flowers on a stone slab - her most common style around 1700