An architectural legend is lost,Bruce Munro lights up Uluru and what Palmyra looks like after its recapture – all in your weekly art dispatchDutch Flowers[br]The Dutch Republic in the 17th century took flowers seriously – so seriously it was gripped by tulip-mania. The flower-growing obsessions of the age still shape the look of Holland nowadays. In art, flowers offered a perfect subject for the realist artists from an age when the microscope was pioneered. Paintings by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, and Rachel Ruysch and others showcase fascinating visions of colour – but look out for the worm in the bud,the lizard under the leaf.
• National Gallery, London, or 6 April-29 August.
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