Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects

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Artist : Balthasar van der Ast (1593/1594–1657)

Title : Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects

Object type: painting

Genre: floral painting

Year : 1630

Medium : oil on canvas

Dimensions : Height: 47 cm (18.5 in); Width: 36.8 cm (14.4 in)

Place: National Gallery

This painting is an unusual fiction. roses and tulips, lilac and snake’s head lilies, aren't all in bloom at the same time, so the artist would have made drawings and sketches of them at different times of the year, later compiling them into the picture. Scientific exploration and discovery flourished in the Dutch Republic at this time. As in this painting, art and science often go hand in hand. Artists began to use the newly invented microscope to enable them to paint in accurate detail plants and insects – like the butterfly, the cricket and the wasp zooming down to the fallen rose petals.

What he paints is so realistic that the objects are almost real. In one way they’re presented as scientific specimens, but in another as a precious, unfading vision of nature that could never have lived in reality.

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