Nicole Ganbold

Author

Nicole worked as an Editor in the DailyArt Magazine and has MA degree in art history. She is passionate about 17th-century Dutch art and colonial history. Her life-goal is to work with art and experience its beauty on a daily basis.

Articles by Nicole

Museum Stories

An Insider’s Look: Denver Art Museum Staff’s Favorite Artworks

The Denver Art Museum was founded in 1893 and, since then, has enriched the cultural life of the state of Colorado. It is one of the largest museums...

Nicole Ganbold 13 November 2025

Museum Stories

The Best of North Carolina Museum of Art: Staff Picks

The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) in Raleigh, North Carolina, houses a collection of artworks ranging from antiquity to the present. Through...

Nicole Ganbold 13 November 2025

Museum Stories

Cincinnati Art Museum Staff Picks

If you’re a frequent museum visitor, you probably have a favorite piece there, right? The same goes for the museum staff, who are surrounded by...

Nicole Ganbold 13 November 2025

Women Artists

Maria Sibylla Merian—An Artist Who Changed Science Forever

In the 17th century, it has been widely believed that insects were just spontaneously born of mud, dirt, or rotting flesh, but that notion has been...

Nicole Ganbold 14 October 2025

Jan de Baen (attributed to), The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers, c. 1672 - c. 1675, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands WTF Art History

A Bizarre Story of Brothers De Witt Who Were… Eaten by a Mob?

Legend has it that in 1672, two important Dutch statesmen and brothers, Johan and Cornelis de Witt, were murdered, mutilated, and eaten by an angry...

Nicole Ganbold 6 October 2025

Frans Post, View of Olinda, Brazil, 1662, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Baroque

Frans Post—First Landscape Painter of the Americas

Frans Post has gone down in art history as the first trained landscape painter to work in the Americas. In 1636, as a young man of just 24, he...

Nicole Ganbold 3 September 2025

Quiz

QUIZ: Will You Recognize Famous Artists in Their Self-Portraits?

Nicole Ganbold 16 August 2025

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies

Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies is an enigmatic and highly unusual imaginative portrait made in 1650s England. It reveals a fascinating story...

Nicole Ganbold 10 August 2025

Maria de Knuijt Baroque

Meet Maria de Knuijt: Was Vermeer’s Main Patron a Woman?

We all know Girl with a Pearl Earring, but have you ever wondered to whom the piece originally belonged? In light of the recent, largest Vermeer...

Nicole Ganbold 28 May 2025

Art History 101

Dutch Golden Age Explained

When one thinks of any Golden Age, the first thing that comes to mind is the 17th-century Netherlands at its glory – the Dutch Golden Age. The most...

Nicole Ganbold 19 May 2025