From Pisanello and Dosso Dossi to William Holman Hunt and Richard Dadd: paintings showing butterflies.
van Hemessen
It’s sometimes hard to read a painting without understanding an inscription. Masaccio, Rossetti, Moreau, Corinth and Botticelli gives us some clues.
Curious still lifes and more containing allegories about the emptiness and futility of life on earth, and its brevity. Even seen in Cézanne and Jacek Malczewski.
The Eclectic Light Company 