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Still Life with Poppy, Insects, and Reptiles  1670

by Otto Marseus van Schrieck

Known to contemporaries as "The Snuffler" due to his apparent penchant for rooting around in the undergrowth, Marseus van Schrieck had close ties with the seventeenth-century culture of scientific investigation. This picture of the forest floor bristles with interactions between a lizard, snake, snails, and butterflies, all in the shadow of a poppy. Rather than painting fl...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art