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A Hundred Flowers in a Wooden Tub

A tall bouquet of lilies, tulips, irises and roses glows against a dark wall.

Painting · Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1606–1607

A large bouquet of many kinds of flowers in a round wooden tub on a table, with a few fallen flowers and butterflies on the tabletop.
Jan Brueghel the Elder · Public domain

Let your eyes wander

  1. Begin with the orange crown of flowers at the very top, hanging like little bells.
  2. To the right, a large red peony opens wide.
  3. On the left, white lilies lean out toward the edge.
  4. Find the blue irises, and then the tulips streaked with red and gold.
  5. On the table at bottom right, a dark butterfly with red bands rests on a sprig of blackberries.
  6. On the left side of the table, a smaller butterfly sits among white cyclamen.
  7. Just beside the tub, a pale little butterfly hovers near a yellow flower.
  8. A few fallen petals and tiny blue flowers are scattered across the tabletop.

There is no last thing to find. Look again wherever your eyes would like to rest, or close them and keep the picture.

Keep going

Nothing here needs finishing. Every door leads somewhere, and the last one is always darker than this.