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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache
Portrait of Count Alexey G. Bobrinsky as a child – by Fyodor S. Rokotov – c.mid-1760s. Count Alexey G. Bobrinsky (1762-1813) was the illegitimate son of Catherine II (the...
The language of Flowers
'And can all the flowers talk?'
'As well as you can,' said the tiger-lily.
'And a great deal louder.'
from Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1871)
Celebrated flower painter of the Golden Age
Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1650 - 1683 I can't help but drink in the beauty. Narcissus, caterpillars, droplets of water, a butterfly,...