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Garland of Flowers with Bird and a Butterfly is a c.1650-1670 still life oil on canvas painting, now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The eponymous animals in the centre are a great tit (top), a nine-primaried oscine (bottom) and a peacock butterfly . [ 1 ]
The flowers most prized by 'florists' (garden lovers) are presented in the order of the seasons, starting with spring. (Herbaria were called "hortus hyemale" or "hiemale" in Latin ('winter garden'), or "hortus siccus" ('dry garden'), and did not take on this name until the 18th century). In 1631 the great era of "Les Vélins du Roi" began.
Coxcomb (ornithology), a fleshy growth on the top of the head of many gallinaceous birds; Coxcomb (plant) or Celosia, a small genus of edible and ornamental plants; The Coxcomb, an early Jacobean era stage play; The Coxcomb, 1999 album by David Grubbs; Fop or coxcomb, 17th century slang for a man overly concerned with his appearance
Jacobean embroidery refers to embroidery styles that flourished in the reign of King James I of England in first quarter of the 17th century. The term is usually used today to describe a form of crewel embroidery used for furnishing characterized by fanciful plant and animal shapes worked in a variety of stitches with two-ply wool yarn on linen .
In the 17th century, it was unimaginable to most people that something as common as a flower could be worth so much more money than most people earned in a year. The idea that the prices of flowers that grow only in the summer could fluctuate so wildly in the winter, threw into chaos the very understanding of "value". [72]
The Triumph of Death, or the Three Fates, Flemish tapestry with a typical mille-fleurs background, c. 1510–1520 The birds and animals at inconsistent scales are a feature of the style Millefleur , millefleurs or mille-fleur ( French mille-fleurs , literally "thousand flowers") refers to a background style of many different small flowers and ...
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.
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.