Flowers

Flowers in paintings

The pictures with floral or plants' motif we find them since the codices, manuscripts and Books of Hours in which we can admire precious branches. These works evolve mainly like a separate sort in the XVI and in the XVII.

The place where this type of paintings reached greater development was in the Netherlands, and soon these paintings spread by all Europe. In Spain magnificent works took place where the painters play with the use of the floral reasons as a frame and introduces to us in a religious scene or winding cartelas, reaching special masters in century XVII the painter Juan de Arellano. To these compositions small baskets have been denominated them throughout history, vases, fruit of flowers or flower bases

Also botanical drawings and paintings obtained great popularity.