The Rose: An Illustrated History
Author(s): Jennifer Potter
The rose. No other flower has come close to capturing the western imagination in quite the same way. Tulip fever may have flared fiercely and suddenly in seventeenth-century Europe. The Madonna lily may match the white rose for its symbolic purity. But no other flower fascinates like this mysterious flower. In its very ambiguities lies the blood of Christ with the sweat of Muhammad, the sacred and the profane, life and death, the white rose of chasitity and the red rose of consummation.
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- : Atlantic Books
- : Atlantic Books
- : 31 August 2011
- : 01 December 2010
- : books
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- : Jennifer Potter
- : 560