Michaelina Wautier: the female Flemish artist now seen as an old master

Opening in Vienna on Tuesday, a new exhibition gathers her works into one show for the first time The first time that Katljine von der Stighelen cast her eyes over The Triumph of Bacchus, it made her question her own judgement.In 1993, the Dutch art historian and Rubens expert was visiting Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches museum for a conference and had asked to see a van Dyck in the archives. On her way out, she caught a glimpse of a vast, 2.7 metre x 3.5 metre oil painting of a wild and drunken parade writhing with naked bodies young and old. Continue reading...

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