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Pliny the elder wrote that Pausias, a follower of Apelles painted a garland to impress his sweetheart Glycera. Most flower painting in the ancient world, however, probably took the form of decorative mural schemes, and free-standing painting of flowers did not appear as a significant genre in its own right until the second half of the 16th century, when it emerged along with other genres such as landscape and still life. Until then flower painting had been embedded in the context of religious works and in the specialist context of herbals. Bellori states that Caravaggio was the first to make independent flower paintings, in the 1590s, but the movement must have been further advanced in the north. By 1603 when Roelandt Savery dated a flower piece in oils, the genre appears well established, and production of flower pieces rapidly gathered momentum, especially in the Netherlands.
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