Flowers are the centerpiece in the majority of pictorial still-lifes. By painting their colours and forms, artists from Brueghel to O▓Keeffe have created symbols for both life and mortality. Van Gogh▓s sunflowers, Monet▓s water lilies and Matisse▓s bouquets are, of course, unforgotten. Most of the works contained in Flowers are true masterpieces, which have often marked whole epochs and styles.