Flowers and World Views
22 March - 20 October 2013
Step into a splendid garden filled with flower paintings
The exhibition presents a spectacular and lush extravaganza of flower paintings spanning two centuries. Explore familiar and rare exotic flowers – and find strange blooms you have never seen before.
A flower is not just a flower
The exhibition offers a sensuous walk through the rich variety of the world of flowers, but it also digs deeper to show that a flower is not simply a flower. The artists’ representations of flowers, fruit, and plants are affected by history and the prevalent world view. A picture of a flower is a picture of its own time.
What’s on?
Get creative in the drawing studio, see the conservators at work, and much more. The café and bookshop also focus on flowers.
See what’s on
View the flowers up close
We have made the many paintings from the vast album known as The Gottorfer Codex available here, allowing you to view them in full close-up.
View the many flower paintings
Jacob van Walscapelle (1644-1727), A bunch of flowers.
