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Open Tuesday – Sunday 9:30 am – 5:15 pm
Learn about Mary Cassatt’s life and work in our short film.
The only American invited to join the French Impressionists and the most celebrated woman artist of her time.
By Antonia Smith, digital project manager
Bible story, but make it a wedding in a Dutch country house.
By Isabella Lores-Chavez, associate curator, European paintings
Stars are crossed, gender is performed, and sexuality is fluid in Bol’s The Crowning of Mirtillo.
Meet one of the greatest women artists of the Italian Renaissance.
By Magnolia Molcan, senior web managing editor
When your hairstyle is literally fire.
By Emanuele Lugli, assistant professor, Stanford University
How our curator of drawings and prints identified five new drawings by Botticelli.
Learn about the life, process, and legacy of Sandro Botticelli.
Nicknames, secret messages, and a revolutionary act.
Giving our Portrait of a Lady back her name.
By Elise Effmann Clifford, head of paintings conservation
Hear about the drama behind the Tudor dynasty.
How Elizabeth I ruled as a woman and became an icon.
By Isabella Holland