Floral history timeline

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  • 2800 BCE

    Egyptians

    Egyptians
  • Period: 2800 BCE to 28 BCE

    Egyptians

    -used flowers for decoration, garlands, wreaths, and temple offerings.
    -utilized simplistic design principles
  • 600 BCE

    Greeks

    Greeks
  • 207 BCE

    Chinese

    Chinese
    water and containers to create floral arrangements
  • 28 BCE

    Romans

    Romans
  • 28 BCE

    Japanese

    Japanese
    Rikkwa- standing flowers
    Ikebana- places an emphasis on lines
  • Period: 28 BCE to 325 BCE

    Romans

    -use flowers for fragrant purposes
    -designs of their garlands wreaths and crown were more elaborate
  • 320

    Byzantines

    Byzantines
  • Period: 320 to 600

    Byzantines

    -brought together greek and roman period influences
    -places arrangements in baskets, goblets, or low containers
  • Period: 600 to 150 BCE

    Greeks

    -known for creating the cornucopia
    -created triangular and symmetrical arrangements
  • 1400

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance

    -created large, symmetrical arrangements with bright colors
    -introduced Christmas wreath

  • Baroque

    Baroque
  • Period: to

    Baroque

    created symmetrical designs, the. shifted to asymmetrical designs
  • Period: to

    Thirty Years' War

    The Thirty Years' War was a 17th-century religious conflict fought primarily in central Europe

  • Early American

    Early American
  • Period: to

    Early American

    created arrangements for personal adornment and decorations around the home

  • The Mayflower

    the Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists—half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs—had been authorized to settle by the British crown.

  • Colonial Williamsburg

    Colonial Williamsburg

  • The great awakening

    The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale.
  • Period: to

    Colonial Williamsburg

    -he began to mix different floral arrangements
    (grasses,flowers, and foliage)

  • American federal

    American federal
  • Period: to

    American federal

    -began to focus on the charm of an individual flower
    -stayed away from large amounts of mixed floral bouquets

  • Victorian

    Victorian

  • Presidential election

    the House of Representatives, breaking a tie in the Electoral College, elected Thomas Jefferson president of the United States.
  • Period: to

    Victorian

    -used foliage and grasses to contrast textures
    -placed flowers in very low containers

  • Modern

    Modern
    combined line elements from the Japanese and mass designs from the Europeans