Tulips and carnations and a conservatory in air. Flower paintings so real you could almost bury your nose and breathe their scent. Flemish artist Peter Frans Casteels. Late 17th century.

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"Flowers in a Stone Urn." After 1690.
“Flowers in a Stone Urn.” After 1690. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead longer than 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Frans_Casteels_-_Flowers_in_a_Stone_Urn_2.jpg
"Vase of Flowers on a Ledge." After 1690.
“Vase of Flowers on a Ledge.” After 1690. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Frans_Casteels_-_Flowers_in_a_Stone_Urn.jpg

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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