Nature Into Art” at the Toledo Museum of Art is the first major monographic exhibition ever devoted to Ruysch.

The Dutch flower paintings of the 17th Century reflected beauty, over scientific accuracy. Learn more about the Dutch, flower painting business ...

For almost as long as artists have been painting floral still lifes, the subject has been doubted or belittled when it hasn’t been dismissed.Even the great Dutch flower paintings of the early ...

Yes, those Dutch and Flemish paintings were memento mori; lessons in morality and the fleeting condition of life. In the Dutch flower paintings specifically, not only is a bloom incredibly fleeting ...

Shara Hughes: I had made a few flower paintings in the recent past while working on the landscape series, so it wasn’t super unfamiliar. One of those, called True Loves Kiss, was about two ...

The “Flower Vase” is a masterpiece by Jan van Huysum, ... Dutch painting stolen by Nazi soldier returned to Florence museum By . Associated Press. Published July 19, 2019.

J creates a hand tied bouquet with flourish, arranges flowers in Delft pottery, and mimics flower paintings by arranging in the style of the Dutch masters. Arrangements by a viewer are also shared ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Visual Arts news every morning. “There is so much to read into that one picture. The diffusion of colours, the richness and also ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A Dutch still-life painting, stolen by retreating Nazis and sent by a German soldier as a present to his wife, came back to a Florence museum on Friday, thanks largely to ...