The Secret Language of Flowers
$35.00
Subtitled "notes on the hidden meanings of flowers in art". The book covers French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel's deep dive into the archives of the magnificent garden that Isabella Stewart Gardner created. Othoniel examined the Museum and photographed the flowers in the tapestries, ironwork, architecture, furnishings and paintings, in such masterpieces as van Dyck's with its innocuous rose, Piermatteo d'Amelia's Annunciation with its majestic lily and Bartolomé Bermejo's Saint Engracia with its enigmatic palm.
This gift-worthy volume presents his art-historical ABC of these flowers, from Acanthus to Zea Mays.
