Flora. Les Fleurs dans l’Antiquité. Architecture – paysage Band II: Commentary

Band II: Commentary

from the Académie des Beaux-Arts to foreign collectors' circles

A tribute to the piece composed in 1911 by the musician Béla Bart6k

Il met véritablement en scène les puissances divines qu'un homme grec pouvait percevoir à l'œuvre dans l’univers

by the interest in the history of reception

Flora. Les Fleurs dans l’Antiquité. Architecture – paysage Band II: CommentaryBelles Lettres "Bookmarks" Collection No. 22. A flower makes spring: the Ancients saw it as the symbol of nature, its beauty and its inexhaustible vitality, its fragility too. At each step of the nymph Flora, an infinite variety of flowers blooms. Great myths are about the rose, the narcissus or the hyacinth flower. Flowers are everywhere. They breathe love, during an abduction in the open field or a wedding ceremony. One could only go to the banquet