Floral Design

By Reahnna10
  • 2800 BCE

    Egyptian

    Used flowers for decorations, garlands, wreaths and temple offering
  • Period: 1400 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Renaissance

    Created large symmetrical arrangements with bright colors
  • 150 BCE

    Greeks

    Used flowers for adornment, created the Horn of Plenty Cornucopia
  • 28 BCE

    Romans

    Used the same customs of the Greek period, used flowers for fragrant purposes
  • Period: 320 to 600

    Byzantines

    Brought together Greek and Roman period influences
  • Period: 1400 to

    Flemish

    Inspired by paintings
  • Period: to

    Baroque

    Created symmetrical designs the shifted to asymmetrical design
  • Period: to

    Early American

    Created arrangement for personal adornment
  • Period: to

    Colonial Williamsburg

    Placed grasses flowers an foliage into fan shaped arrangements
  • Period: to

    American federal

    Began to focus on a individual flower
  • Period: to

    Victorian

    Used foliage and grasses to contrast textures

  • Modern

    Container specifically to hold flowers