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17th century Europe was fascinated by botany, leading to a boom in floral still life paintings by Flemish artists such as Jan Brueghel the Elder and Daniel Seghers in the 17th century, with the Spanish proving particularly keen collectors of them. In the second half of the century some Spanish painters specialised in them almost exclusively ...
The idea for the manual was taken up by a former pupil of Nicolas Robert, Catherine Perrot , received at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1682): The Royal Lessons, or the Method of Painting Miniatures of Flowers and Birds, based on an Explanation of the Books on Flowers and Birds by the late Nicolas Robert, Flower painter [39 ...
Jan Frans van Dael or Jean-François van Dael (27 May 1764 – 20 March 1840) was a Flemish painter and lithographer specializing in still lifes of flowers and fruit. He had a successful career in Paris where his patrons included the Empresses of Empire France as well as the kings of Restoration France.
By the early 17th century the number of plants described in Europe had risen to about 6000. [46] The 18th century Enlightenment values of reason and science coupled with new voyages to distant lands instigating another phase of encyclopaedic plant identification, nomenclature, description and illustration, "flower painting" possibly at its best ...
Vase of Flowers (first half of the 17th century) Small Basket of Flowers, oil on linen, 46.5 x 60.5 cm (c. 1650), Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao; Flowers in a Vase (1650) Still Life with Flowers (c. 1650-1670) Flowers on a Basket on a Plinth - two images (1664) Vase of Flowers - two images (1664) Vase of Flowers - different image (1668)
Portrait of Kanō Einō Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer, byōbu folding screen, late 17th century, 1,530 mm × 3,610 mm. Kanō Einō (狩野 永納, 1631–1697) was a Japanese painter of the Kyō-ganō [] sub-school of the Kanō school of painting.
A floral diagram is a graphic representation of the structure of a flower. It shows the number of floral organs, their arrangement and fusion. Different parts of the flower are represented by their respective symbols. Floral diagrams are useful for flower identification or can help in understanding angiosperm evolution.
Bird-and-flower painting by Cai Han and Jin Xiaozhu, c. 17th century.. The huaniaohua is proper of 10th century China; and the most representative artists of this period are Huang Quan (哳㥳) (c. 900 – 965), who was an imperial painter for many years, and Xu Xi (徐熙) (937–975), who came from a prominent family but had never entered into officialdom.