The Toledo Museum of Art devotes an exhibition to the 17th- and 18th-century Dutch artist, who enjoyed a decades-long career ...

We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.

The finely crafted glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History were created as a study tool for botany students and appear real.

Archaeologists found a strange red mark on rock. Forensic police helped them unravel who made it ...

Every year, around this time, Italy enters its most colorful season: market stalls are filled with peonies and poppies, ...

She challenged the tradition of Victorian flower painting and chose to paint plants in their natural settings instead. Her work became a powerful record of the dramatic landscapes she visited and the ...

He is also director of the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, which shows contemporary work, at the Victorian College ... “The use of flowers in art is a call to be present; it is a call to slow ...

They were a bit like a Victorian meme. This style of fun art is still popular today. Another common type of picture was still life. The famous Victorian era flower paintings are some of the best ...

During the Victorian era, floriography, or the language of flowers, became a popular way to express emotions. Different flowers held specific meanings, allowing people to send coded messages ...