The art historian Dr. Stephanie Hauschild discussed in this book, the history, myth and the symbolism of the rose from antiquity to the present day. The book contains beautiful photos and also pictures of roses and pictorial representations of Rose, but the focus is on the texts. At the beginning you can admire the painting "The grave of the Rings" by René Magritte, where a huge single rose is shown in an empty room. About this image and the famous phrase of Gertrude Stein "A Rose is a rose is a ... "is the author of thought and makes clear that Stein had already won in the first half of the 20th century, the impression that the concept of the Rose was too worn to even as a design element of poetic texts and images to are good
Dr. Hauschild suggested that stone and later solved the problem by Magritte, by added to the now worked out images and metaphors of the new reading rose species (see: p. 8).
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As a result, you will always be familiar with the roses in ancient Greece and Rome and read of old rose myths. Even among the Greeks was the one with the concept of love and Eros links, but also with the dark side, namely the transience of love, happiness and earthly life, loss and death of the loved one, (see p. 18).
The Ode to the Rose of Anacreon (c. 550-495 BC), one can enjoy and also a little poem that Julianos, called the Egyptians wrote. Herodotus describes a fairy garden, surrounded by impenetrable mountains, roses grow each of intoxicating fragrance. For the Greeks should have been roses crops. Were needed for the production of rose oil. The Romans decorated like the Greeks their temples and statues of gods with roses. The historian and naturalist Pliny reported the rose culture in ancient Rome. In the cookbook of Apicius refers to a Roman court of Rose: "Rose petals are ground in a mortar, add to add fish stock and suggests the whole through a sieve" (quote p. 30).
About the roses in Egypt and those in medieval monasteries will be notified and may also be the Rose Miracle of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia enjoy. It is learned that roses are a symbol of Mary and will be informed of facts about Mary Gardens in the Middle Ages. The Rose observations of the naturalist Albertus Magnus (1193-1280) are brought into play and there are close to the reader Rose Pictures to be related, such as Willem van Aelst "flowers in a vase with silver paper and a pocket watch" or Jan van Huyums "Flowers in a terracotta vase.
early as the 18th Century, roses were a fashion accessory as you can see the dress "Madame de Pompadour" not difficult to Boucher's famous painting. We read of Goethe and his poem "Heideröslein. Here he uses the rose as a metaphor for a young woman who against the grooming of a man unable to defend themselves.
The Rose of the Empress Josephine are also discussed and it is the rosy depictions of the artist Pierre-Joseph Redoute familiar, and concludes in deepen a sad poem by William Blake and Rose Gertrude Stein's "A rose is a rose is a ..." be heard from far away.
A beautiful book, in which the roses will be duly paid homage.
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