In the 17th century, Holland was in bloom. Following a bout of “tulipmania” in the 1630s, it became fashionable to visit the Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam’s botanical garden, to catch a glimpse of a ...

SANTA FE — As I entered the room in LewAllen Galleries with Bettie Ward’s colorful paintings of flower- and bird-filled gardens, I felt the air change. Her relentlessly cheery art lifted my mood ...

Take a first look at Christine Mercer-Vernon’s paintings and you’ll notice the intricate beauty of local flowers, depicted in exact detail. Each vein on the leaves, every grain of pollen, and the ...

"Catalogue of paintings and drawings in water color," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1949. https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=ariall&source ...

30 x 30 x 30 cm. (11.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 in.) "Anitra Nettleton is an emeritus Professor who taught at the University of the Witwatersrand for thirty five years. Author and internationally recognised ...

The abundance of natural light streaming into Amy Woods’ home studio is ideal for growing plants and, in Woods’ case, for painting them. Scattered about the attic are dozens of paintings of flowers—a ...

Vol. 55, No. 3, Symposium: "An English Arcadia: Landscape and Architecture in Britain and America" (Summer, 1992), pp. 433-457 (25 pages) Huntington Library Quarterly publishes articles on the ...

We are accustomed to seeing the Virgin too set within a landscaped background from the Renaissance on, and early 16 th-century etchings by Dürer show such scenes. As Lorenzo de Medici himself remarked ...

Beyond Wild Expectations is a new series exploring exceptional public gardens of every scale, from grand formal parterres to intimate community plots. We reveal the design vision, planting choices and ...

Over 100 masterworks by 59 artists spanning the Ming and Qing dynasties are on view at China Institute Gallery in New York. Zhu Da (1626–1705), “Flowers on a River” (1697), hand scroll; ink on paper, ...