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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Bouquet

🖼 Bouquet, 1603
Wood
125 × 96 cm
Munich, Germany

Luminous flowers overflow a glass vase in meticulous detail, each petal rendered with jeweler's precision against dark ground. Brueghel pioneers the floral still life genre, elevating humble blooms to high art and establishing a template that influenced European painting for centuries.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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