Link to the still life masterpiece's website provided by National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

Still Life (Talking) Music: Still Life (Talking) by Pat Metheney - great for jogging, walking, rollerblading or for listening while looking at this van Huysum still life.

Try the Listen to All button to sample the songs.

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var image0desc:String  = "Jan van Huysum's Flowers in an Urn was created in 1720," +
                                    " about 56 years before 1776.  Did Franklin or Jefferson ever see this painting?"; 
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var image1title:String = "Butterlies and Flowers";
var image1desc:String  = "Fly away to spring break 2008, flying southward " + 
                                            " as migrating birds wing their way northward.";
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var image2title:String = "Zoom In, magnify";
var image2desc:String  = "Look closer, look longer, look deeper... " + 
                              "Learning to see is a theme of Catch 22 as I recall on March 11.";
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var image3title:String = "Spring";
var image3desc:String  = "Whitman's Sea Drift cluster of poetry " + 
                                  " celebrates the love birds singing and searching and celebrates the sea as endlessly rocking cradle.";
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var image4title:String = "So many details";
var image4desc:String  = "Shape, color, life, pottery, craftsmanship, genetics, art history, the Dutch, ...";
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var image5title:String = "Light blue surrounding white";
var image5desc:String  = "Clouds, wedding dresses, veils, birthdays, death, the sea...";
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var image6title:String = "Waltz of the Flowers";
var image6desc:String  = "The Joffrey Ballet premiered the Nutcracker Ballet in Iowa City and only" +
                         " afterwards took it to the Kennedy Center, not far from where this painting is displayed.";
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var image7title:String = "Colorful urn";
var image7desc:String  = "The painter's tribute to the potter, perhaps, is the urn holding the flowers.";
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var image8title:String = "Directions";
var image8desc:String  = "Analog meets Digital / Art meets Math  Branching out - What is a Tree?  ...... " +
                                               " Arctic temperatures. Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at UNI."; 
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