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Irises. (painting) Irises is one of several paintings of irises by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, and one of a series of paintings he made at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890. Van Gogh started painting Irises within a month of entering the asylum, in May 1889 ...
Dimensions. .816 m × .926 m (32.1 in × 36.5 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The Artist's Garden at Giverny (French: Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny) is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900, now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of ...
The second pair of iris screens, circa 1710–1716, was also painted with ink and color on gold-foiled paper, and measure 163.7 by 352.4 centimetres (64.4 in × 138.7 in) each. [ 11 ] Unlike the earlier pair of iris screens, this later pair includes a depiction of an angular bridge, a more explicit reference to the literary work that inspired ...
The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), [pron 1] is a common heraldic charge in the shape of an Iris pseudacorus (in French, fleur and lis mean 'flower' and 'iris' respectively). Most notably, the fleur-de-lis is depicted on the traditional coat of arms of France that was used from the High Middle ...
The irises of human eyes exhibit a wide spectrum of colours. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye 's iris [ 1 ][ 2 ] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [ 3 ]: 9. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from ...
The Hexagonae series name is derived from the first Louisiana iris species to inhabit the series, Iris hexagona. [1] The name "Louisiana iris" comes from the naturalist and artist John James Audubon. In the 1821, a Louisiana flag was painted by his assistant Joseph Mason, then Audubon added his pair of parula warblers. He then used the term ...
Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees.
The iris genus contains 260–300 species of flower, many of them of blue and purple shades. Iris is an ambiguous color term, usually referring to shades ranging from blue-violet to violet. However, in certain applications, it has been applied to an even wider array of colors, including pale blue, mauve, pink, and even yellow (the color of the ...