Lecture 40 Plants, Flowers and Fruits in Art

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Lecture 40 Plants, Flowers and Fruits in Art
Illustration of plants, flowers, and fruits is
part of artistic traditions from prehistory to
modern times
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Paleolithic and Neolithic representations of
plants
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Primitive drawings of trees, Assyria
Pre-dynastic drawing of plant 5000-6000 years ago
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Peruvian Ceramic Jars
Peanut
Potato
Squash
Source Leonard,First Farmers, 1973
Cacao pod
Cacao god
Source Indianapolis Museum of Art
Source Smith, The Aztecs, 1996
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Maize, Moche Jars, Peru (500 CE)
Source M. Eubanks
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Ancient Egyptian
Tomb of Osiris withsacred tamarisk
Garden estate of awealthy Egyptian
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Roman Antiquity
Bowl of fruit, Pompeii
Painting of peaches, Pompeii
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Plums and quince in glass bowlVilla at Torre
Annunziata
Source The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979
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Basket of figsVilla at Torre Annunziata
Source The Gardens of Pompeii, Jashemski, 1979
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Garden painting, Pompeii
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Woodblock prints from theCommentarii (1544) of
Mattioli
Pear
Apple
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Woodblock print of Psyllium
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Caravaggio(1573-1610)
Boy with a Basket of Fruit
Source The Age of Caravaggio,The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1985
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Boy with a Basket of Fruit (Detail)
Source The Age of Caravaggio, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1985
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The Supper at Emmaus
Source The Age of Caravaggio, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1985
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The Supper at Emmaus (Detail)
Source The Age of Caravaggio, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1985
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Bacchus
Source Caravaggio,Alfred Moir, 1982
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Bacchus (Detail)
Source Caravaggio, Alfred Moir, 1982
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Still Life with a Basket of Fruit
Source The Age of Caravaggio, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1985
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RenaissanceGiuseppe Arcimboldo, 16th century
Autumn
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Winter
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Spring
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Summer(Portrait of Rudolph II)
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Flemish Flower Paintings (17th century)
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Paulus Theodorus van Brussel, Fruit and Flowers
Jacob van Walscappelle, Flowers in Glass Vase
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Jan Davidsz de Heem
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19th Century ImpressionistsVincent van Gogh
Wheat Field with Cypresses at the Haute Galline
Near Eygalieres, 1889
Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun, 1889
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Irises 1889,1890
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Pears
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Paul Gauguin
Still Life with Apples,a Pear, and a Ceramic
Still Life with Tomatoes
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Paul Cezanne
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Claude Monet
Water Lilies
Sunflowers
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19th Century Japanese
Japanese Influence in America
Tiffany window
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Georgia OKeeffe, 20th century American
Jack in the Pulpit
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Jimson Weed
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Poppy
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Georgia OKeeffe
Morning Glories
Apple blossom
White Pansy  
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Lily
Rose Larkspur
Yellow Galla
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The Sunflower in Art
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Pietro Andrea Mattioli, from De Plantis Epitome
Utilissima, 1586
John Gerarde, The Herbal or Generall Historie of
Plantes, 1597
Flos Solisminor mas, Flos Solisminor foemina
Gross indianisch sonnenblum, or Flos Solis
peruuianus
Helianthemon peruuianum
Of the Flower of the Sunne, or the Merigolde of
Peru Flos Solismaior, Flos Solisminor
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Wood Block Botanical Illustrations
Sunflower, Flos Solis minor The lesser Sunne
floure Gerard, 1633
Sunflower, Flos Solis major The greater Sun
floure Gerard, 1633
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Daniel Froeschl (1563-1613)
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Basilius Besler, 1613, colored engravings
Flos Solismaior
Flos Solisprolifer
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Self-Portrait with Sunflower, Antony van Dyke,
1633
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Woman with Roses and Sunflowers, Karel de Moor,
late 17th/early 18th century
A Boy Blowing Bubbles, Frans van Mieris the
Elder, 1663
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Fruit and Flowers with Eucharistic Wine,Jan
Davidsz de Heem, 1651
The ascension of the Virgin, Antonio Ponce, 1654
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Vase of Flowers on a Marble Base,Jakob van
Walscapelle, 1672
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The Nymph Clithea Transformed into
Sunflowers,Charles de Lafosse, 1688
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Vincent van GoghSunflowers, 1888
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Girl with Sunflowers, Michael Ancher, 1889
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Georgia OKeefe
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New York cartoon,The Judge A Thing of Beauty
Not a Joy Forever, 1883 (Caricature ofOscar
Wilde)