LOS ANGELES, California, March 10 -- The J. Paul Getty Trust issued the following news release:

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New Volume Explores Baroque Painter Michaelina Wautier's Diverse, Complex Oeuvre

This book offers a long overdue recognition of the painter's remarkable artistic and intellectual achievements

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Michaelina Wautier (1604-1689) was an unparalleled artist active in the mid-seventeenth century in the Southern Netherlands.