Ruysch

The second amazing thing in Ruysch's work was the striking similarity with Tim Burton's Nightmares before Christmas characters.

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Morbid Anatomy blog where Joanna calls Ruysch her patron saint:

Boing Boing 2010

Morbid Anatomy blog where Joanna calls Ruysch her patron saint:

Boing Boing 2010

A prominent female Dutch Golden Age painter, Rachel Ruysch 1664-1750 specialized in still lifes.

Guess The Artist Answer Revealed: Rachel Ruysch (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

She was the daughter of Frederik Ruysch, a professor of anatomy and botany and an amateur painter.

Guess The Artist Answer Revealed: Rachel Ruysch (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Ruysch both achieved fame and commanded high prices for her works during her lifetime.

Guess The Artist Answer Revealed: Rachel Ruysch (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

The statistical pattern continued this week with a little under one third of you correctly guessing the artist: Rachel Ruysch.

Guess The Artist Answer Revealed: Rachel Ruysch (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Ruysch was one of the best-known and most highly paid flower painters of her time.

Guess The Artist Answer Revealed: Rachel Ruysch (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

In Leiden and Saint Petersburg she beholds the lifework of Frederik Ruysch, a seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist who collected limbs, organs and the bodies of fetuses and newborn babies.

Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors Heather McDougal 2007

Ruysch transformed tissue preservation into an eccentric kind of art, injecting a fluid that highlighted the circulatory system as graphically as the red lines in a medical illustration.

Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors Heather McDougal 2007