Daniel Froeschl, Sunflower Seen from the Back, from Codice Casabona Biblioteca Universitaria, Pisa.

Daniel Froeschl, Sunflower Seen from the Back, from Codice CasabonaBiblioteca Universitaria, Pisa

Anthony van Dyck, Self-portrait with Sunflower, 1632-33, private collection

Jacopo Ligozzi, Fig Branch with Exotic Finches, Florence, Uffizi

Jacopo Ligozzi, Fig Branch with Exotic Finches, Florence, Uffizi

Giovanna Garzoni, Figs with a Beetle, private collection

Bartolomeo Bimbi, Monstruous Cawliflower and Horseradish, 1706Sezione Botanica "F. Parlatore" del Museo di Storia Naturale,

University of Florence

Maria Sibylla Merian, Tulip, 18th c

Maria Sibylla Merian, 18th c

Oxford University Physic Garden

Ole Worm, Museum Wormianum, seu historia rerum rariorumLeiden, 1655

Basket with Fruit, Caravaggio, Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (16th c)

Ambrosius Boschaert the Elder, Vase With Flowers in a Window, c. 1618The Hague, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis

Juan de Espinosa, Grapes, Flowers, and Shells, c. 1640, Paris, Louvre

Still Life, Sebastien Stoskopff (17th c)

Still Life, Sebastien Stoskopff, New York, Metropolitan Museum, c.1630

Caravaggio, Boy With a Basket of Fruit, c. 1593, Galleria Borghese, Rome

Flower Still-Life With Curtain, Adrian van der Spelt, Chicago, Art Institute (17th c)

Vittore Carpaccio, Apotheosis of Saint Ursula, 1495, Venice, Accademia

Lorenzo Lotto, Venus and Cupid, 1513 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Domenico veneziano, Martyrdom of Saint Lucy, c. 1445Berlin, Gemäldegalerie

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of Anna Cuspinian, 1502-3Winterhur, Oskar Reinhart Collection