“Then portraiture, and, at the bottom, still life painting.” History painting required artists to paint nude models, which ...

“Nature Into Art” seems set on returning Ruysch to ... In many ways, women’s influential role in botanical and still life painting points to the confines set against them.

At the Blue Heron Nature Preserve, art and nature are intertwined. For 11 years, the Preserve, a sprawling greenspace in ...