Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects

Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects

Artist: Balthasar van der Ast (Dutch, 1593/1594 - 1657)

Original Dimensions: 18 1/2" x 14 1/2"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (About 1630) "This painting is a strange 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 incorporating them into the picture. Scientific exploration and discovery flourished in the Dutch Republic at this time. As in this painting, art and science often went 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 van der Ast paints is so realistic that the objects are almost tangible. In one way they are presented as scientific specimens, but in another as an unfading vision of nature that could never have existed in reality." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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