These works show how gorgeous and profound Dutch flower painting can be. For the great art historian Ernst Gombrich, each picture was a vanitas – a meditation on youthful beauty, the brevity of life ...

A combination of fascination with botany and the initial flowerings of the world's first capitalist society inspired Dutch artists to create their own genre of painting 300 years ago. The genre was ...

The "blue river" in the Keukenhof Gardens, also known as the Garden of Europe, one of the world's largest flower gardens, in Lisse, Netherlands. Tulips in the flower fields in Hillegom, Netherlands ...

The Museum of Fine Arts has received two collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, a vast trove of 113 paintings that catapults its Dutch collection to among the country’s very finest and ...

TOLEDO — The Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch won the lottery twice — in 1713 and 1723. Most people will be happy for you if you win the lottery once — even if you’re already quite well off, as Ruysch was.

In the mid-18th century, the Dutch artist’s technical virtuosity was in huge demand among Europe’s elite, from prime ministers to royalty. Van Huysum’s are not paintings of flowers in all their ...