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Robert H. Laessig's flowers, ladybugs and other natural images have adorned a Newsweek cover, 20 Plain Dealer Sunday magazine covers, President Lyndon Johnson's holiday cards, Governor Dick ...
Parts of Vincent van Gogh's "Flowers in a blue vase" painting have mysteriously changed color over time, and now scientists have figured out why: A chemical reaction between the paint and a ...
SO MANY ARTISTS have painted flowers that one could write an alternative history of art by studying these pictures: Claude Monet’s ethereal, sun-dappled water lilies floating on the light ...
The full painting: Rachel Ruysch, Still life with flowers in a glass vase, 1716, oil on canvas, 48.5 x 39.5 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. AGNSW. Ruysch’s family had a particular connection with ...
Since Vincent van Gogh painted “Flowers in a blue vase” in 1887, some of the bouquet’s bright yellow blossoms have turned an orange-gray.
In May 1889 Van Gogh painted Irises, a close-up view of flowers in the garden of an asylum. He had come to this retreat on the outskirts of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence after mutilating his ear ...
The tale of the Dutch tulip craze is a cautionary one – the first example of an economic bubble. As a new exhibition of flower paintings opens in London, Alastair Sooke looks back.
Van Gogh painted "Flowers in a blue vase" in 1887 in Paris; the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands acquired the painting in the early 20th century.