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The iris is the jewel of spring. With their intriguing shape and rainbow variation of colors, it inspired many artists because this flower can inspire deep feelings of love, trust, and care
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Iris flowers (Iris atropurpurea), Cordia Ovalis, and Euphorbia abyssinica (to the right) from the “Botanical Garden” of King Thutmosis III located on the east part of the Festival Hall of King Thutmosis III (“Karnak”), Thebes
Iris flowers Iris decoration - Taj Mahal - India
Fresco with Irises on the walls of the Palace of Knossos “Priest-king Relief", plaster relief at the end of the Corridor of Processions, restored by Gilliéron, believed to be a priest-king, wearing a crown with peacock feathers and a necklace with lilies (?) on it, leading an unseen animal to sacrifice
Upper Rhenish Master - Paradiesgärtlein, ~1410 – Städel Museum
Jacopo Bellini Un iris, 1470 Musée du Louvre, Paris Adele Rossetti Morosini Seeking Jacopo Bellini’s Iris
Master of The Legend of Saint Lucy - Saint Jerome. The 15th century. Detail Master of The Legend of Saint Lucy - Saint Jerome The 15th century National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Hugo Van der Goes (ca 1440-1482) The Portinari Altarpiece or Portinari Triptych (c. 1477) Uffizi Gallery
Hugo Van der Goes (ca 1440-1482) The Portinari Altarpiece or Portinari Triptych (c. 1477) Uffizi Gallery (detail)
Hugo Van der Goes (ca 1440-1482) The Montfort Altarpiece (c. 1470) Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Hugo Van der Goes (ca 1440-1482) The Montfort Altarpiece (c. 1470) Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Master MS The Visitation, 1506 Hungarian National Gallery Livre d'heures, utilisation de Rome (les «heures Sforza») 1490-1521
Master of Pulkau (Bavarian or Austrian, active c. 1505–1520) Nativity Art institute Chicago
Master of the Embroidered Foliage - Triptyque de la Vierge, 1490 Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Workshop of Albrecht Dürer, The Madonna with the iris, 1500-10 The National Gallery
Garden Iris (Iris germanica) and a caterpillar Unknown French draughtsman ca1750, The Fitzwilliam Museum Antoine du Pinet (1510-1584) Iris Germanica The Fitzwilliam Museum
Georg Flegel (German, 1566-1638) Spanish iris, morning glory, and cherries, 1630 Kupferstichkabinett Berlin Godfried Schalcken - A Vase of Flowers, 1675 Ashmolean Museum
Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - British Library Vat. Lat. 3769, fol. 145v
Illuminated Manuscripts Digitale Bibliothek - Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum
Horae ad usum Romanum, dites Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne - 1503-1508
Horae ad usum Romanum, dites Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne - 1503-1508 Illuminated Initial L The Walters Art Museum
Les Heures de Spinola enluminé en Flandre vers 1510-1520 Book of hours France Tours 1510-1525 detached calendar leave
Livre d'heures d'Isabelle de Lalaing, vers 1478 (BNF) Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Dialogi et Alia opera - 1503 - manuscrits Louis-Michel de Saint-Aubin (1731-1779) Louvre museum
Indian School, 1650 Aurangzeb Bahadur holding an iris The San Diego Museum of Art
The Morgan Library & Museum The Paul Getty museum Decorated Text Page (detail), Master of the Getty Epistles, about 1520-30 (Getty Museum)
Margareta de Heer - Iris with four beetles and a butterfly, 1650 - Groninger Museum
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) Iris Susiana The Fitzwilliam Museum Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (Princess Palatine at the well) Musée_Condé
Nikolaus Knüpfer - Pyrame et Thisbé, 1650 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau
Jacques Linard - The Five Senses and the Four Elements, 1627 Louvre Museum
Still Life of Iris, Lilies, Roses and Carnations In Elaborate Urn Pedro de Camprobín (Spanish, 1605 - 1674) Still Life of Iris, Lilies, Roses and Carnations In Elaborate Urn II
Osias Beert (Flemish) Basket of Flowers, ~1615 Dallas Museum of Art
Peter Binoit Still Life with Iris, 1623 National Gallery Jan van Huysum - Flower Still Life in a Terracotta Vase with a Bird's Nest on a Marble Table, 1735 - Fabre museum
Jean-françois Van Dael (Flemish, 1764-1840) Flowerpiece, 1811 National Gallery of Victoria Jan van Huysum - Fleurs et fruits, ~1800 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne
Jean-françois Van Dael (Flemish, 1764-1840) Flowerpiece, 1811 National Gallery of Victoria
Jan Philip van Thielen (1618–1667) Roses, tulips, carnations and an iris in a glass vase on a draped stone ledge Anna Stanchi (active Rome c. 1643) Still life with flowers, 1643
Balthazar van der Ast (1593-1657) Delft Flowers, Shells, Butterflies and Grasshopper, ~1645 Musée du Louvre
Justus de Gelder (attr.), Boys Flying Kites, 1650–1707, Upton House Collection, Warwickshire, UK Juan de Arellano - Corbeille de fleurs, ~1700 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne
Sandro Botticelli La primavera 1481-82 Galleria degli Uffizi
Sandro Botticelli La primavera 1481-82 Galleria degli Uffizi
Pierre-Joseph Redouté - Iris illustration Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French, 1759–1840) Iris illustration
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French, 1759–1840) Iris illustration
Anthonore Christensen (Danish, 1849–1926) Bouquet of spring flowers, 1875
Anthonore Christensen (Danish, 1849–1926) Bouquet of spring flowers, 1875
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