herbs butterflies and a serpent canvas nordiska kompaniet Normann was a famous Norwegian

Normann was a famous Norwegian landscape painter who became very popular for his fjord motifs with high mountains

poised for a dramatic leap through flames

like the Swedish John Bauer

Box 97: At the speech of the World Congress

herbs butterflies and a serpent canvas nordiska kompaniet Normann was a famous NorwegianCanvas with the painting Forest herb, butterflies and snake by the Dutch artist Christian Jansz Striep (1633 1673) . The motif consists of a natural scene with bright butterflies and a greyish yellow snake that dramatically reaches out to catch one of them with an open gap. In many Dutch still lifes from the 17th century, the artists introduced various kinds of symbols. Here the snake could be interpreted as a symbol of evil, while the bright