The Timeline Project: Renaissance Woman

Once hailed as the 'second Sappho' and 'Fourth Muse', the Poet, Translator, and Artist Anna Roemers Visscher (1584-1651) was born today in 1583. She was a member of the 17th Century artist's group self-named The Muiden Circle. Her writings and correspondence have helped greatly in providing a more realistic portrayal of the post-medieval world and challenge the notion that 'The Renaissance' was a great masculine event in which women played no active part.

For someone so highly praised it is disappointing not to be able to find any English translations of her work around the web and to only find one fragment in her native Dutch. Only a handful of her fine glass engraving are known, most in the Rijksmuseum.