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An 1873-5 painting in oils, Flowers in a Blue Vase, by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. Here Cézanne is keen to show texture, form, and the bright colours and their reflections and shadows. This was painted...

An 1869 oil on canvas still-life, A Vase of Flowers, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Renoir was keenly interested in painting flowers throughout his career and found the exercise relaxing.

The 1901 Basket of Flowers Egg by Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna. The egg is made of gold and silver with a white oyster enamel shell and a blue enamel...

An 1864 oil on canvas still life, Spring Flowers, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. Painted while Monet was studying at Gleyre's Academy in Paris, the work shows his mastery of traditional painting techniques...

Narcissus flowers, often called daffodills. In Greek mythology the handsome youth Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection and was transformed into the flower when he died.

An 1888 oil on canvas, First Spring Flowers, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Back in France after his visit to the Caribbean, the artist has returned to a more impressionist palette and style but uses his...

Wall painting fragment with flowers and birds, from a Roman villa around Mt. Vesuvius, before 79 CE. (Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany)

An 1896 oil on canvas still-life, A Vase of Flowers, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in Tahiti and illustrating the artist's interest in still life continued wherever he lived, although it was often...

The rose that grows in many different forms in gardens all over the world today is an evolution of rose-like plants that lived in the northern hemisphere between 33 million and 23 million years ago. Traces of them have been found in the fossil...

Rose-and-nightingale paintings and patterns (gul-u-bulbul) are a subtheme of the bird-flower (gul-u-morḡ) genre in Persian art. Bird-and-flower paintings are of Chinese origin and include pictorial elements such as flowers and plants, birds...