Allegory on Human Life  1660

In Flemish 17th-century painting, elaborate garlands of sensuous, fragile blossoms at the height of their beauty and fruit ripe to the point of bursting—all inviting our touch before their inevitable decay—were often depicted framing spiritually significant images. Jan Brueghel (1568-1625), a master of flower painting (as in the flowers he contributed to The Archdukes Visi...