Jean-Michel Othoniel - The Secret Language of Flowers, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Published by Actes Sud and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2015Hardcover, 192 pages13.3 x 21 cm | 5.25 x 8.25 inText in EnglishISBN 9782330048129 From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: During his 2012 residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 1964) delved into the archives of the magnificent garden that Isabella Stewart Gardner, the first American woman to graduate with a degree in horticulture, cultivated around her residence.Othoniel examined the Museum and photographed the flowers in the tapestries, ironwork, architecture, furnishings and paintings, in such masterpieces as van Dyck's Portrait of a Woman with its innocuous rose, Piermatteo d'Amelia's Annunciation with its majestic lily and Bartolomé Bermejo's Saint Engracia with its enigmatic palm.This gift-worthy volume presents his art-historical ABC of these flowers, from Acanthus to Zea Mays.