Halfland is Sottobosco!
So, I was a Googlin' one day a few months back and looking up an extraordinary painting—you likely know it, but it was new to me—of a rabbit sitting in a forest (NOT his piece entitled, "Hare in the Forest" but his work called, "The Hare" or, as known in Italian, "La Lepre") with many other vivid creatures around it, including a twig and, above the rabbit's head, a single bee theatrically placed in the air. I learned that it was painted by Hans Hoffmann• in 1585 AD. The original, in this gorgeous frame , currently hangs in the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Corsini . The thing is, this painting was not only unique to Hans Hoffmann's work, but as it was painted in the winter of 1585, it may have been the first time a nearly life-sized subject, with what was around them in nature, was studied and depicted together in art anywhere. Albrecht Dürer, during the German Renaissance, indeed made stunning sketches of wildlife, a radical act at that tim...
