Flowers into art: floral motifs in European painting and decorative arts

This truly lovely book is a fitting tribute to its subject, the use of flower motifs in art throughout the ages. Flower gardens and fashions, illustrated botanical works, the flower as an artistic motif from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque, artists and their gardens in the second half of the 19th century, the illustrators of the Flora Danica, flower enamels, botanical porcelain services, and artificial flowers are among the subjects discussed here by Danish, German, Dutch and Swiss specialists, making this book a standard work for connoisseurs and admirers of flowers in art and botanical history.