Flowers in a glass vase
- Artist
- John Constable
- Date
- c.1814
- Style
- Romanticism
- Genre
- Flower painting
The painting titled 'Flowers in a glass vase' is a beautiful example of a flower painting still life. The artist employed oil paints, a medium known for its rich and vivid colors. The oil paint provides an added depth and luminosity to the flowers and glass vase, making them almost lifelike. The vivid portrayal of these commonplace objects reflects the influence of Romanticism with a focus on the intense emotional reaction to beauty. In this painting, the bouquet is not set against a traditional canvas but on a cardboard surface, adding rusticity and simplicity to the richly painted flowers.
Related artworks
- Picture II, Gnomus. (Stage set for Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in Friedrich Theater, Dessau) by Wassily Kandinsky
- Arrival Catherine the Second to Pheodosiya by Ivan Aivazovsky
- A Flower Stall by John William Waterhouse
- Annunciation by Jacopo Bellini
- The Bolt by Jean-Honore Fragonard
- Saint Cecilia by John William Waterhouse
- Mihailovsk castle by Vladimir Borovikovsky
- Papal ceremony in St. Peter's in Rome under the canopy of Bernini by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Pala di Sant Agostino (St. Bartolomeo) by Pietro Perugino
- St. Catherine and St. Barbara by Lucas Cranach the Elder