Jan Brueghel the Elder
Jan Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter and draftsman. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and also a close friend of Peter Paul Rubens, with whom he often worked. The two artists were the leading Flemish painters in the first three decades of the 17th century. The artist was nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel. The first is believed to have been given him because of his mastery in the rendering of fabrics. The second nickname is a reference to his specialization in flower still lifes and the last one to his invention of the genre of the paradise landscape.
Today we present one of his flower compositions from the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. For the first time, in this painting Brueghel painted a large rose blossom that is intersected by stalks and eclipsed by another blossom. Beneath the particularly striking fiery tulips and flaming iris blossoms is the grey-blue-black mourning iris, which was a very rarely illustrated specimen.
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