Virtual Art in Focus: Maria Katharina Prestel, Triumph of Truth Over Envy

 All that glitters…is gold , in this case! Our final edition of Virtual Art in Focus this fall, takes a look at this extraordinary print by Maria Katherina Prestel. Prestel has only recently been rediscovered by print historians, as she worked for her husband, Johann Prestel, and his initials appear rather than hers on many of the works.

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Join us at 1pm on December 12 on thequicklive.com for informal conversation about this work, led by Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo, PhD. This work is included in the exhibition Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection (Bellarmine Hall Galleries, September 12 - December 21, 2024). Click here for more information about the exhibition.

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Image: Maria Katharina Prestel after Jacopo Ligozzi, The Triumph of Truth over Envy, 1780, etching and aquatint in brown and ochre ink, touched with gold leaf. Courtesy of the Wetmore Collection, Connecticut College.

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