Download high resolution version (789x1001, 115 KB)Bouquet of Flowers by Ambrosius Bosschaert (c. 1620) Oil on copper, 23 x 17 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Source: http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/bosschae/ambrosiu/index.html File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete...
Download high resolution version (789x1001, 115 KB)Bouquet of Flowers by Ambrosius Bosschaert (c. 1620) Oil on copper, 23 x 17 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Source: http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/bosschae/ambrosiu/index.html File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete...
Bouquet of Flowers by Ambrosius Bosschaert (c. 1620) Oil on copper, 23 x 17 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Dutch Golden Age. He specialised in painting still lifes with flowers.
Ambrosius II Bosschaert is a representative of 17th century Dutch still life, he was one of the first painters who concentrated entirely on still lifes with bouquets of flowers and fruit.
Bosschaert was born in Antwerp in 1573, but had to flee to Holland because of his religious beliefs before reaching the age of twenty.
As a floral still life painter Bosschaert started a whole ‘dynasty’ that specialized in the subject, and the tradition he had started was continued by his three sons, two brothers-in-law and a son in law.
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