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3 unusual facts about Ruysch


Ruysch

Rachel Ruysch (1664—1750), Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers, daughter of Frederik Ruysch

Frederik Ruysch (1638—1731), Dutch doctor and anatomist, remembered for his developments in anatomical preservation and the creation of dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts

Johannes Ruysch (c. 1460?, Utrecht - 1533, Cologne), a.k.a. Johann Ruijsch or Giovanni Ruisch, explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter from the Low Countries


Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Enthusiastically, Redouté became an heir to the tradition of the Flemish and Dutch flower painters Brueghel, Ruysch, van Huysum and de Heem.


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