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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Still-Life with Garland of Flowers and Golden Tazza

🖼 Still-Life with Garland of Flowers and Golden Tazza, 1618
Oil on wood
47.5 × 52.5 cm
Brussels, Belgium

Luminous flowers frame a gleaming golden vessel in meticulous oil detail, each petal rendered with jewel-like precision. This Flemish masterwork celebrates wealth and nature's transience, blending still-life virtuosity with memento mori symbolism popular in seventeenth-century courts.

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E. H. Gombrich
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