The pieces on display illuminate Europeans’ elaborate, often amusing responses to botanicals, and their desire to possess and preserve plants across time and space.
Rienzi
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For years, Kitchen Maid (around 1620)—labelled “in the style of Diego Velázquez”—hung behind a door at Rienzi, the European decorative arts house museum at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).…
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It was announced recently that Christine Gervais has been appointed the new Director of Rienzi, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s off-site museum for European decorative arts. Gervais has worked at Rienzi for the past…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) announced that Katherine S. Howe, founding director of Rienzi, will retire at the end of June. Rienzi, the MFAH house museum for European…