FOREVER FLOWERS - MASTERY AND MEANING OF FLOWER PAINTINGS IN THE LOW COUNTRIES (

If flowers could talk... In Forever Flowers, conservator Sven Van Dorst offers a different perspective on a vibrant genre, the se venteenth-century Flemish flower still life. His detailed exploration of eight magnificent pictures in the collection of The Phoebus Foundation is a search for the secrets that lie beneath the brushstrokes of Jan Brueghel I, Daniel Seghers, Jan Davidsz. De Heem, a nd their fellow flower painters. With the latest in modern analysis and imaging technologies as well as reconstructions of histor ical tec...[Read more]