Download or read book Seventeenth-century Flemish Garland Paintings written by Susan Merriam and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life painters, Jan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz. de Heem, this book examines the emergence of the first garland painting in 1607-1608, and its subsequent transformation into a widely collected type of devotional image, curiosity, and decorative form. Susan Merriam explores how ultimately the genre served to re-cast the devotional picture in the wake of the iconoclasms of the Protestant Reformation.