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Books on Flower Painting and Still Lifes

Lewis, Frank.  A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Flower, Fruit, and Still Life Painters, 15th to 19th Century.  Leigh-on-Sea:  F. Lewis, Publishers, Ltd., 1973.

Mitchell, Peter.  The Inspiration of Nature:  Paintings of Still Life, Flowers, Birds and Insects by Dutch and Flemish Artists of the 17th Century.  London:  John Mitchell and Sons, 1976.

Runia, Epco, Katy Kist, and Jennifer Kilian.  In the Mauritshuis: Flowers.  Zwolle:  Waanders Publishers, 2007.

Segal, Sam.  Flowers and Nature:  Netherlandish Flower Painting of Four Centuries.  The Hague:  SDU Publishers, 1990.

Segal, Sam.  A Flowery Past:  A Survey of Dutch and Flemish Flower Painting From 1600 Until the Present.  Amsterdam:  Gallery P. de Boer, 1982.

Taylor, Paul.  Dutch Flower Painting:  1600-1720.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1995.

Wheelock, Arthur.  From Botany to Bouquets:  Flowers in Northern Art.  Washington:  National Gallery of Art, 1999.

 

Books on Flowers

Bunyard, Edward A.  Old Garden Roses.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937.

Grey-Wilson, Christopher.  Cyclamen:  A Guide for Gardeners, Horticulturalists and Botanists.  Portland:  Timber Press, 1997.

Innes, Clive.  The World of Iridacea.  Ashington:  Holly Gate International Ltd., 1985.

Mathew, Brian.  The Iris.  New York:  Universe Books, 1981.

Nold, Robert.  Columbines:  Aquilegia, Paraquilegia, and Semiaquilegia.  Portland:  Timber Press, 2003.

Potter, Jennifer.  The Rose:  A True History.  London:  Atlantic Books, 2010.

 

Important Websites

www.plants.usda.gov

www.plantillustrations.org

www.wikipedia.org

 

Image Sources

http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/cgi/i/image/image-idx?sid=93ec09dff33542926bdcefa6cac15fa5;page=index;c=botanie;lang=nl

http://www.floweringshrubfarm.com/flowerpic147big.jpg

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33464/33464-h/images/ill-0065.jpg

http://objects.library.uu.nl/reader/index.php?obj=1874-255736&lan=en#page//98/11/79/98117971234025888095670821311480455829.jpg/mode/thumb

http://oldtulips.org/images/silver_standard_tulip_(rdv)_2009_lg.jpg

http://www.onlineplantguide.com/Image%20Library/R/6718.jpg

http://plants.usda.gov/gallery/pubs/mysc_002_php.jpg

http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=mubo_003_avp.tif

http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=vitr_002_ahp.jpg

http://www.rosesloubert.com/collection%20loubert/2002/rosa%20centifolia%20(provenance%20kassel).JPG

http://www.teylersmuseum.nl/wotpdf/Bessler_tomus_I/Flash.htm#/1/

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Iris_variegata_01.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Aquilegia_vulgaris_100503c.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Convallaria_majalis_0002.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Cyclamen_purpurascens_280803.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria_meleagris#mediaviewer/File:Fritillaria_meleagris_MichaD.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary#mediaviewer/File:Rosemary_bush.jpg