@theculturedump: You guys loved my last post about ‘Floriography’ — the symbolic language of flowers. Here are some more to get you excited about spring… 🌻 Sunflower — loyalty, faith, adoration 🌹 Roses — passion, love, secrecy, beauty 🌺 Orchid — femininity, sensuality, strength 🌼 Jasmine — eros, elegance, gracefulness 🪻 Foxglove — magic, fairies, danger, toxicity Pictures shown: 🖼️ Arthur Chaplin, ‘Floral Still Life’ (1869-1935) 🖼️ Sir Anthony van Dyck, ‘Self Portrait with a Sunflower’ (1632-33) 🖼️ Rachel Ruysch, ‘Still Life With Rose Branch, Beetle, And Bee’ (1741) 🖼️ Martin Johnson Heade, ‘Orchid and Hummingbird near a Mountain Waterfall’ (1902) 🖼️ Salvador Dalí, ‘A Shower of Jasmine’ (1954) 🖼️ Arthur Chaplin, ‘Floral Still Life’ (again…) #arthistory #flowers #BookTok #culture #poetry

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