Michaelina Wautier
Michaelina Wautier, Two Girls as Saints Agnes and Dorothy, c. 1655. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp – Flemish Community, © Art in Flanders (photo: Rik Klein Gotink)
Michaelina Wautier, most exciting rediscovery of the past decade in art history. This comprehensive exhibition offers for the first time an opportunity to discover the nearly complete Œuvre of this extraordinary painter – and to experience it on a par with masters like Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.
Michaelina Wautier is considered one of the most important painters of her time. In an era when woman artists worked primarily in still lifes or genre painting, Wautier also gained recognition for her ambitious history paintings.
The exhibition offers a contemporary female perspective on both traditional and innovative pictorial themes and the male body.