Love for Botany

By the beginning of the 17th century, the science of plants, botany, had formed, still life gained status as an independent genre, and society became fascinated with the symbolic language of flowers. In the following century, the Swedish scientist Carl... Linnaeus named all the inhabitants of the plant world.
.This book is dedicated to them. The focus is on their poetic and artistic imagery, the scientific and popular etymology of their names, and their symbolic meaning in myths and legends. Illustrations are fragments of works of painting, graphics, and applied art - primarily from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum.