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File: John Singer Sargent - Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose - Google Art Project.jpg
The Madonna of the Carnation, also known as the Madonna with Vase, Madonna with Child or Virgin with Flower, [1] is a Renaissance oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci created around 1478–1480. It is permanently displayed at the Alte Pinakothek gallery [ 2 ] in Munich , Germany.
The painting depicts white and red carnation flowers in a gold and dark brown vase. Provenance: [1] Owner Auction House/Exhibit Name Year Type Sessler, USA:
In Christian iconography plants appear mainly as attributes on the pictures of Christ or the Virgin Mary. Christological plants are among others the vine , the columbine , the carnation and the flowering cross, which grows out of an acanthus plant surrounded by tendrils.
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American painter John Singer Sargent in 1885–86. [1]The painting depicts two small children dressed in white who are lighting paper lanterns as day turns to evening; they are in a garden strewn with pink roses, accents of yellow carnations and tall white lilies (possibly the Japanese mountain lily, Lilium auratum) behind them.
A gilliflower or gillyflower (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ l i ˌ f l aʊ. ər /) [1] is the carnation or a similar plant of the genus Dianthus, especially the Clove Pink Dianthus caryophyllus. [2] Its botanical name is Matthiola incana, also known as stock. [3] The same name also describes other plants, such as the wallflower, which have fragrant flowers.
Dianthus (/ d aɪ ˈ æ n θ ə s / dy-AN-thəs) [1] is a genus of about 340 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, native mainly to Europe and Asia, with a few species in north Africa and in southern Africa, and one species (D. repens) in arctic North America.
Gypsophila (/ dʒ ɪ p ˈ s ɒ f ɪ l ə /) [2] [3] is a genus of flowering plants in the carnation family, Caryophyllaceae. They are native to Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. [4] Turkey has a particularly high diversity of Gypsophila taxa, with about 35 endemic species. [5] Some [6] Gypsophila are introduced species in ...