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Rachel Pollack

Rachel Pollack is a visiting professor of writing at the George Washington University and has taught courses for the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and the University Honors Program. She has a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland where she specialized in Northern Baroque art with a subspecialty in Greco-Roman sculpture.
Garden of Love: Embroidered treasures from 17th-century England
Shakespeare and Beyond

Garden of Love: Embroidered treasures from 17th-century England

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Rachel Pollack

The language of botanicals can be found in some of the smallest treasures to survive the 17th century, such as embroidered boxes.

Embroidering the crown: Needlework in the English royal court
an embroidered textile with figures representing the story of Hero and Leander
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Embroidering the crown: Needlework in the English royal court

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Rachel Pollack writes about early modern English embroideries and the stories they depict, such as the classical myth of Hero and Leander.