Rediscovering a Forgotten & Misattributed Female Artist of the 17th Century
Reading Judith Leyster’s The Last Drop
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3 min readJun 3, 2021
Last week, I was doing my research on the vanitas art movement that depicted mortality in 17th-century art, especially in Netherlands and Belgium. The artists adopted the historic theme of memento mori (Latin word for “remember that we must die”) and incorporated elements…
