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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Vase of Flowers with Jewellery, Coins and Shells

🖼 Vase of Flowers with Jewellery, Coins and Shells, 1606
Oil on copper
65 × 45 cm
Milan, Italy

Jeweled objects and shells cascade around a delicate vase of blooms, rendered with meticulous detail in oil paint. Brueghel pioneered the Northern European flower still life genre, elevating humble botanical subjects into displays of wealth, artistry, and vanitas symbolism.

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