HORT 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Floral Design, Stoneware, Victorian Era
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Traced back to 2,800 bc, ancient artifacts indicate that flowers were significant in their culture for important life events: used for religious ceremonies, home decorations, personal adornment. Flowers often used for wreathes and garland: bestowed honor to athletes, civic leaders, poets, warriors, garlands worn at weddings decorate homes. Flowers and petals scattered on ground at festivals. Blossoms and petals scattered lavishly during ceremonies. From the city of byzantium of the eastern roman empire. Garland construction included twisted lengths of flowers or fruits. Middle ages: 476 to 1450 ad: flowers for food, drink, medicine, freshening air, personal adornment. Renaissance: 14th to 16th century: religious history, flower symbolism, floral designs began to evolve into arrangements, mass and symmetrical designs, white lily: purity and chastity, containers for flowers. Mass arrangement with line development: hogarth (s) curve, drooping, loose and casual design. 18th century named after the english kings (george i, ii, iii)
