National Gallery di Londra, Regno Unito. 5 Aprile, 2016. In coincidenza con il Chelsea Flower Show, questa mostra esplora Dutch Flower pittura dal XVII al XVIII secolo. Credito: artsimages/Alamy Live News
5481 x 3648 px | 46,4 x 30,9 cm | 18,3 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
5 aprile 2016
Ubicazione:
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom
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Press Release: The National Gallery welcomes spring 2016 with an exhibition exploring the evolution of Dutch flower painting over the course of two centuries. This is the first exhibition of its kind in the UK for more than twenty years. Through twenty-two works, Dutch Flowers will examine toe origins of the genre, the height of its popularity in the Dutch Golden Age and its final flowering in the late eighteenth century. Approximately half the works on display come from the Gallery’s permanent collection, and the rest from private collections. Many of the paintings will be on display here for the first time, having only recently come to the Gallery on long term loan. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Netherlandish painters such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Ambrosius Bosschaert and Roelandt Savery were among the first artists to produce paintings that exclusively depicted flowers. The sudden emergence of this genre is undoubtedly linked to the development of scientific interest in botany and horticulture at the close of the sixteenth century. This period saw the establishment of botanical gardens in the Netherlands as well as booming international trade in exotic cultivars. By the 1630s, speculative prices for the most coveted bulbs and flowering plants had reached spectacular heights - the so-called ‘Tulipmania’. Prices soon crashed, however the Dutch enchantment with flowers endured. Coinciding with the Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows, visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to examine the flower paintings in detail to appreciate the stylistic and technical characteristics of each artist.
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