Description

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• This elegant gift edition is devoted to flowers
• Flowers of every hue with poems, facts and wonderful illustrations of flowers and their place in this universe

“Portraits” of flowers from paintings, manuscripts and botanical atlases are accompanied by myths, legends and poetry from around the world that capture the symbolic and allegorical language of flowers.
The book is profusely illustrated, largely with works from the collection of The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.