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Titian’s Flora (detail: face), a young woman with long copper-blonde hair wearing a white draped garment, holds a small bouquet of violets, rosebuds and jasmine against a dark background.

Titian’s Flora

October 5, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou Italian Renaissance ArtRenaissance ArtTeaching Resources

Explore Titian’s Flora, where flowers, luminous colour and an enigmatic woman embody Venetian Renaissance ideals of beauty, balancing modesty, sensuality and enduring mystery.

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Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez’s Indian Woman with Marigold (1876) depicts an Indigenous Mexican woman holding a bright orange cempasúchil flower against a dark background.

Indigenous Woman with Marigolds

September 30, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtTeaching Resources

Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez’s Indigenous Woman with Marigolds brings together pregnancy, mortality and the symbolism of the Mexican cempasúchil, inviting us to reflect on life, death and remembrance.

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Left: Japanese lacquer inrō decorated with blooming chrysanthemums and asters in gold and coloured lacquer, Edo period, 18th–19th century. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Right: Japanese lacquer inrō featuring chrysanthemums and asters in delicate gold lacquer against a dark background, Edo period, 18th–19th century. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Autumn in the Palm of Your Hand: Asters, Chrysanthemums and Two Japanese Inrōs

August 31, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou Japanese ArtTeaching Resources

Celebrate September through a beautiful Japanese lacquer inrō, where asters and chrysanthemums capture the quiet beauty of autumn in a masterpiece that fits in the palm of your hand.

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George Lambert's 1922 oil self-portrait: the artist stands against a deep purple background in a gold velvet smoking jacket, pipe in mouth, one hand on hip, beside a cut-crystal vase of red, pink, and white gladioli.

George Lambert’s Self Portrait with Gladioli

July 31, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtTeaching Resources

A velvet jacket, a pipe, and a vase of gladioli, meet George Lambert, the Russian-born jackeroo who became Australia’s most glittering artist.

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James Holland’s 1859 watercolour shows an abundant summer bouquet in a clear glass vase. Soft pink and cream roses, a vivid red poppy, pelargoniums, yellow calceolarias, and tall blue delphiniums spill naturally across the composition.

James Holland’s Delphinium Watercolour

June 30, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtBritish ArtTeaching Resources

Celebrate July’s Delphinium with James Holland’s radiant 1859 watercolour, where Victorian flower symbolism, luminous colour, and the dreamer’s heart bloom together in a timeless summer bouquet.

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By Rossetti, a pastel and black chalk on tinted paper painting of the Day Dream, presenting Jame Morris in a flowing green dress, among tree branches and leaves, holding a small sprig of honeysuckle, thoughtfully looking downward, surrounded by soft, filtered light.

The Day Dream

May 31, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtBritish ArtTeaching Resources

Rossetti’s The Day Dream captures Jane Morris in a moment of stillness—where symbolism, desire, and interiority intertwine within one of the most atmospheric Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

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A delicate still life by Johan Laurentz Jensen showing pale hawthorn blossoms on a dark background, highlighting their fine detail and soft light.

Still Life with Hawthorn Blossom

April 30, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtTeaching Resources

In the quiet refinement of 19th-century Danish painting, Jensen’s Still Life with Hawthorn Blossom celebrates May’s fleeting beauty — where delicate hawthorn blossoms become symbols of renewal, transience, and enduring meaning.

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Georgia O’Keeffe, Pink Sweet Peas II: Close-up view of enlarged pink sweet pea blossoms filling the vertical composition, their velvety petals unfolding in soft gradations of rose against a muted background.

Pink Sweet Peas II

March 31, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtAmerican ArtTeaching Resources

A luminous close-up by Georgia O’Keeffe transforms sweet peas into an immersive meditation on form, perception, and the quiet power of spring’s fleeting beauty.

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Philip Wilson Steer, Jonquil, British Impressionist interior with flowers

Philip Wilson Steer’s Jonquil

March 4, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtBritish ArtTeaching Resources

March’s flower arrives quietly in Jonquil, where Philip Wilson Steer captures early spring’s tender renewal through soft light, stillness, and intimate contemplation.

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A Japanese woodblock print of a blue and rust-colored kingfisher perched on a curved iris leaf, its long beak pointing downward. Tall blue irises and pink wild carnations grow against a pale beige background, with black calligraphy and red seals adding balance to the calm, natural scene.

Iris celebrated as the flower of February

January 31, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou Japanese ArtTeaching Resources

Hokusai’s Kingfisher, Irises and Wild Pinks blends delicate nature, seasonal symbolism, and Edo printmaking, where an iris-centered composition reflects harmony, poetry, and refined Japanese artistic tradition.

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