"Madonna and child Surrounded by a Flower Garland"-Its Rise, Development and Reception in the 17th-Century Flanders-

“麦当娜和孩子周围的花加兰”是一种特殊形式的宗教绘画，这是建议由米兰主教费德里科博罗梅奥在1608年。对于这种类型的第一个工作扬勃鲁盖尔老人画花加兰，和亨德里克货车巴伦的形象麦当娜和儿童。费德里科所写的文件显示，他的主要兴趣集中在对花朵的细致描绘上，而他很少关注圣母和圣子，尽管对天主教徒来说，这是一个重要的崇拜形象。这种新形式的宗教形象是由博罗梅奥发明的，以充分利用花卉静物画家的技能。但是负责画圣母和孩子的画家们不能轻易放松。他们做了各种有趣的艺术安排来展示他们作为人物画家的技能。于是“花加兰围圣母子”成为花鸟画家与人物画家相互竞争的重要意象形式。在这项研究中，我从艺术模仿的角度调查了扬与鲁本斯合作的绘画。鲁本斯对幻觉描绘的兴趣也被认为是与古代和文艺复兴传统的关系。通过比较江户时代的日本人对荷兰进口的货车罗延的花卉静物画的反应和欧洲赞美花卉画的诗歌，研究了对花卉写实的赞美模式。

"Madonna and Child Surrounded by a Flower Garland" is a special form of religious painting which was suggested by the cardinal of Milan Federico Borromeo in 1608. For the first work of this type Jan Brueghel the elder painted a flower garland, and Hendrik van Balen the image of the Madonna and Child. The documents written by Federico show that his main interest was focused on the meticulous depiction of flowers, while he paid little attention to the Madonna and Child, although for the Catholics, it was an important image for worship. This new form of religious image was invented by Borromeo to make good use of the skills of a flower still life painter. But the painters in charge of painting the Madonna and Child could not easily loose. They made various interesting artistic arrangements to demonstrate their skills as figure painters. Thus the "Madonna and Child Surrounded by a Flower Garland" became an important form of image in which the flower painter and the figure painter would compete with each other. In this study, I investigated the paintings Jan painted in collaboration with Rubens from this viewpoint of artistic emulation. Rubens' interest in the illusionistic depiction was also considered regarding its relation to the ancient and Renaissance traditions. The patterns of admiration for the realistic depictions of flowers were also studied by comparing the reactions of the Japanese in the Edo Period to a flower still life by van Royen, imported from The Netherlands, with European poems praising flower paintings.