FLOWERS AND ART: 50 MASTERPIECES AND THEIR FLOWER TYPES (HB)

A celebration of some of the world’s greatest flower paintings as well as an enlightening look at how our environment has changed: 50 remarkable flower paintings from throughout history. The paintings themselves act as fingerprints of the past, revealing what particular flowers were popular, and details of their shape, colour and size. Alongside the plant analysis, art historian Susie Hodge also reveals much about the artists and the works, such as the artist’s individual relationships to flowers and how and why they painted them.