Genre of Still Life. Flower Garlands of the “Dutch Golden Age”.

(multilingual subtitles) Around 1607-1608, in the artistic environment of the Catholic South Holland, such a genre of paintings as “garlands” developed.
Master Jan Brueghel the Elder began to popularize this genre in collaboration with the Italian Cardinal Federico Borromeo in Milan.
Garland painting at first was a religious image or a religious symbol. This symbol was framed flowers and fruits. Some masters of painting later began to weave exotic fruits into flower garlands, adding animals and birds to the still life part.
By the second half of the 17th century, secular subjects such as portraits and mythological subjects also began to decorate the central part of many paintings made in this genre.
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