The Secret Language of Flowers: Notes on the Hidden Meanings of Flowers in Art Hardback by Jean-Michel Othoniel

The Secret Language of Flowers: Notes on the Hidden Meanings of Flowers in Art  Hardback by Jean-Michel Othoniel

Synopsis:

• During his 2012 residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 1964) delved into the archives of the magnificent garden that Isabella Stewart Gardner cultivated around her residence.
  

• Othoniel examined the Museum and photographed the flowers in the tapestries, ironwork, architecture, furnishings and paintings, in such masterpieces as van Dyck's Portrait of a Woman 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.