"Broken" tulips and an anenome painted by Jacob Marrel (1613/14-1681), a German still life painter active in Utrecht during Tulip mania in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed. "Broken" tulips have a viral infection, that caused the petals to show beautiful and striking streaks of color in them, noticed by the Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius, father of the Dutch obsession with tulips, in the Netherlands in the 1600’s.

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Location: Netherlands
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
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