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FLOWERS FOUND IN EGYPTIAN TOMB

Researchers and media had gathered for the opening of the 3,000-year-old coffin,
which archaeologists had hoped would contain the famous boy king Tutankhamun's
mother. But instead the coffin contained strips of fabric and woven laurels of delicate dehydrated flowers. The flowers are likely the remains of garlands strung with gold
strips that were worn by ancient Egyptian royalty.

"I prayed to find a mummy, but when I saw this,
I said it's better—it's really beautiful."
"It's very rare—there's nothing like it in any museum.
We've seen things like it in drawings, but we've never seen this before in real life.
It's magnificent."
~ Nadia Lokma, the chief curator of Cairo's Egyptian Museum

To read more visit Egyptian Tomb

To read more historical information visit Flowers in Egypt

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Flower parade in Cannes (18/03/1920)
Isabelle FOY, Marcelle CAPRON (1893-1986), Robert VINCENT (1908-1977)
Source: www.porges.net

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS.-The Kimbell Art Museum announced the acquisition of a major painting by Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629), one of the founders of flower painting in the Netherlands. Vase of Flowers with a Curtain, dated 1615, is one of the artist’s largest known flower paintings, measuring 43 ¼ x 29 ¼ inches (109.8 x 74.5 cm). De Gheyn never sold it and seems to have kept it in his studio as a showpiece—to demonstrate his skills in this relatively novel artistic genre.

Scholars have long recognized Vase of Flowers with a Curtain as a landmark in the history of flower painting even though it was a “lost” work, kept in a British private collection since 1924, never exhibited in public, and known only in the form of old, black-and-white reproductions. Its reappearance and acquisition by a museum is a significant event in the study of Dutch art. The work adds an important new dimension to the Kimbell’s collection, which hitherto lacked an example of Dutch flower painting or still life.

Commented Malcolm Warner, acting director of the Kimbell: “At any given moment there are many fine 17th-century Dutch flower paintings on the art market, most of which represent this particular kind of art perfectly well. The level of skill among its practitioners was so great that frankly it would be difficult to find a bad example. But for the Kimbell’s collection we were looking for one that was not only technically brilliant and representative of the genre but also quite outstanding in some way—a ‘destination’ piece. Highly unusual and maybe even unique in scale for this early date, and remarkable too for its grandeur and theatricality (note the touch of illusionistic showmanship in the painting of the green curtains), the De Gheyn was our answer.”

With much of its vibrant detail obscured under a yellowed and uneven varnish, the painting is currently in need of conservation treatment. This will be carried out over the next three or four months by chief conservator Claire Barry and her staff in the Kimbell’s conservation studio. Most museums prefer to acquire paintings in such an “untouched” state rather than cleaned for the market, trusting in their ability to see through superficial imperfections—and of course in the expertise of their own conservators. Fortunately, the De Gheyn has never fallen victim to overcleaning in the past and retains its thin glazes and fine details, as well as a clear signature and date. Its appearance will improve dramatically when the offending varnish is removed. The Kimbell will put the work on display in its galleries in July.

Read more at: www.artdaily.org

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Source: www.egginton.org.uk

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