Vase with Flowers

Vase with FlowersThe skill of works such as this lies in their combination of profuse variety and minute details. Here, fine grasses, moss, feathers, eggshell, droplets of water, ants, a ladybird and other insects, the many varieties of flower iris, convolvulus minor, flax, London pride, veronica, larkspur, poppies, orange blossom, French marigolds, auriculas, tulips, salvias, forget me nots and roses and the marble ledge, are all means of displaying the artist's

The poem is set at the time of the First Crusade and follows the vicissitudes of fighting Christians and Saracens

family member

Locksmiths were also seen as shady characters because not only did they make locks and keys

the attribution to Rubens is accepted by Jaffé and Held

Birds nesting in the dovecote may have been kept for their flesh and eggs

The figures and animals show Romeyn's clear debt to Berchem

no more than the result of patience and labour

(Il Bamboccio) from Italy to Haarlem in 1638 seems to have caught the young Wouwermans at a seminal moment (he joined the Haarlem Guild in 1640)

Amalia van Solms

Copy of a studio variant (the so-called 'Barberini type') of Titian's original in the Prado

The central procession takes place between the two wings of people

The scene shows the moment in Ovid's Metamorphoses VI when Apollo and Diana slay all of Niobe's fourteen children to avenge their mother Leto