Serpent and Butterflies in the Woods (1670s) - Otto Marseus van Schrieck (c.1613–1678) #sottobosco
A painted forest floor with several plants, flowers, reptiles, insects, butterflies, and a big toad.
Otto Marseus van Schrieck was the inventor of the forest floor still life (sottobosco) where he depicted flowers, plants, insects, and lizzards within a forest surrounding.
Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Forest floor still life with insects and amphibians, 1662
#stillife #sottobosco #art
Può ancora essere chiamato millepiedi, se ha le corna da cervo ed appena nove paia di zampe?
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Studio internazionale rivela nuove strategie per preservare i boschi del continente
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While full poetic license is taken with the scenes, the individual plants and animals are rendered with careful fidelity. He even pasted real butterfly wings to the canvas! /End
#Art #DutchGoldenAge #Sottobosco
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In the mid 1600s Dutch painter Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1613-1678) invented a whole new genre: the forest floor still life, or “sottobosco”. /1
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