Semper Augustus: Tulip!


	Semper Augustus: Tulip!

dropdedman

2-25-2007 3:07 PM

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tulips, flowers, art, economics, holland

dropdedman says:

What a gorgeous flower, and what a crazy story to go with it. Sometimes with shit like this you are almost encouraged to believe the world can be just...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ae80a9a1-fe03-4315-915f-65f7a56b17e4/98756A48-283F-4896-9DCD-5EB80DDD606A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/semperaugustus.html" href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/semperaugustus.html" style="font-size: 11px;">penelope.uchicago.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/semperaugustus.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/penelope.uchicago.edu/img/206E1642-3FFE-4B8F-82C4-B409BAC81398" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/semperaugustus.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/penelope.uchicago.edu/img/4E433D10-901A-4C49-A2F8-F8845BBA9867" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/semperaugustus.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="50%" valign="top">This still life by Hans Bollongier (1644), in the Frans Hals
          Museum (Haarlem), arranges the flowers, according to the taste
          of the time, with the most beautiful or rarest crowning the bouquet,
          which splays out like a cone. At the top, so heavy as almost
          to fall over, Semper Augustus is proudly displayed, its petals
          curling, the petal of another flower already having dropped.
          Together with the snail crawling across the table, it is a reminder
          that even the most beautiful object is mutable and eventually
          will die.</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/semperaugustus.html"><P>Because Semper Augustus was scarce, it was coveted and because
  it was desirable, it was expensive. That rarity was reflected
  in the price, 1,000, 1,200, 2,000 guilders all having been quoted
  for a single bulb. In 1633, one was said to have sold for 5,500
  guilders; in 1637, just before the crash, a price of 10,000 guilders
  was asked, an exorbitant amount that would have purchased a grand
  home on the most fashionable canal in Amsterdam.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/98756A48-283F-4896-9DCD-5EB80DDD606A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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