Olívo e broa
1677 - 1755
Step into an 18th-century botanist's notebook with this charming study by Elias van Nijmegen. He pairs the vibrant, five-petaled pink blooms of an oleander—hand-labeled in elegant cursive—with the slender, yellowish-green stalk of a broom plant (brem). During the Dutch Baroque period, artists like Nijmegen were essentially the photographers of the plant world, creating precise records for scientists who were going crazy for classifying flora. The soft, translucent colors make the flowers look so delicate you'd be afraid to breathe on them.
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