Forever flowers : mastery and meaning of flower paintings in the Low Countries (1600-1700) / Sven van Dorst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorst, Sven van, 1990- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Flemish--17th century.

Painting, Flemish.

Flowers in art.

Physical Description:

394 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Mastery and meaning of flower paintings in the Low Countries (1600-1700)

Place of Publication:

[Antwerp, Belgium] : Hannibal Books ; The Phoebus Foundation, [2025]

Summary:

In Forever Flowers, conservator Sven Van Dorst offers a different perspective on a vibrant genre, the seventeenth-century Flemish flower still life. His detailed exploration of eight magnificent pictures in the collection of The Phoebus Foundation is a search for the secrets that lie beneath the brushstrokes of Jan Brueghel I, Daniel Seghers, Jan Davidsz. De Heem, and their fellow flower painters. With the latest in modern analysis and imaging technologies as well as reconstructions of historical techniques he penetrates the deepest layers of their works, bringing to light features not seen for nearly four hundred years. For hidden behind the apparent simplicity of a flower piece are coded meanings and astonishing painting processes. -- Publisher's website

Contents:

Foreword: Out of the Garden, Into the Lab

To start with...A Bouqet of STories

Virgin and Child with Crown Imperial and Llama

In Search of a Blue Tulip

Jesuit Garlands in Antwerp

New Buds on Old Stems

Transient Flowers

True-to-Life Butterflies

Foreign FLowers from Amsterdam

Fertile Soil in the New World

And to end with...The Circle is Closed

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Dutch edition

ISBN:

9789464941906

9464941901

OCLC:

1493438914

Publisher Number:

CIPO000248545

9789464941906