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The Heart of the Andes. The Heart of the Andes is a large oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). It depicts an idealized landscape in the South American Andes, where Church traveled on two occasions. Measuring more than five feet (1.5 meters) high and almost ten feet (3 meters) wide, its New ...
WGSRPD code: NWG-PN ( level 4) The Flora of Papua New Guinea, in the WGSRPD, is the flora of the eastern portion of island of New Guinea, i.e. that part of the island that is within the nation state Papua Niugini (Papua New Guinea). The flora of the nation state of Papua Niugini is divided between this category, the Flora of the Bismarck ...
Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 ...
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis is a shrub or a small tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) tall, with flaky grey bark. The leaves are opposite, simple, 6–12 cm (2.4–4.7 in) long and 2–6.5 cm (0.79–2.56 in) broad, with an entire margin. The flowers are fragrant, with a five- to eight-lobed white corolla with an orange-red centre; they are produced in ...
Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717 [1]) was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family . Merian received her artistic training from ...
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Oshibana (押し花) is the art of using pressed flowers and other botanical materials to create an entire picture from these natural elements. [1] Such pressed flower art consists of drying flower petals and leaves in a flower press to flatten them, exclude light and press out moisture. These elements are then used to "paint" an artistic ...
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