Art history hardly knew Judith Leyster—that is, until now. Today, 362 years after the Dutch painter’s death, Leyster takes the internet’s stage, featuring in the day’s Google Doodle, the search engine ...
The 17th century was a man’s man’s man’s world. But the Dutch painter Judith Leyster was so extraordinary that she achieved recognition for her mastery of genre scenes and portraits in her own time.