Still Life with a Large Array of Flowers in a Glass Vase on a Stone Pedestal

I can’t immediately seem to find a great deal of information on Baroque period painter of moody floral still-life masterpieces, Juan de Arellano… other than he painted flowers because he wasn’t so great at painting figures, and also the flower paintings paid more. Seems to have lived pragmatically, if nothing else can be said!

So rather than make a whole bunch of stuff up to meet some arbitrary word count, we’ll leave it at that. The guy painted some gorgeous ghost-haunted flowers (or that’s what I see, anyway) and that’s good enough for me! Below are some of my favorites from amongst his œuvre.

All images via Museo del Prado.

Basket of Flowers

 

Vase of Flowers

 

Vase of Flowers

 

Garland of Flowers with a Landscape

 

Vase of Flowers

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