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2800 BCE
Egyptians
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Period: 2800 BCE to 28 BCE
Egyptians
Used flowers for decorations, garlands, wreath and temple offerings. Utilized simplistic design principles. Applied a particular pattern several times. -
600 BCE
Greeks
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Period: 600 BCE to 150 BCE
Greeks
They used flowers for adornment. They also continued using wreaths and garlands. They created the horn of plenty or the “cornucopia”. -
28 BCE
Romans
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Period: 28 BCE to 325
Romans
Continued to use the same customs of the Greek period. Used less graceful designs compared to the Greeks in baskets and cornucopias. They begin to use flowers for fragrant purposes. -
320
Byzantine
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Period: 320 to 600
Byzantine
Brought together Greek and Roman period influences. Began to incorporate fruits within garlands. Places arrangements in baskets, goblets or low containers. -
1400
Renaissance
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1400
Flemish
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Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
Created large symmetrical arrangements with bright colors. They also used flowers for religious purposes and they introduced the Christmas wreath. -
Period: 1400 to
Flemish
Inspired by Flemish paintings. Created oval shape with mismatched flowers. They also utilized a lavish design with different shapes, textures and colors. Arrangements commonly used urns. -
Baroque
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Period: to
Baroque
Created symmetrical designs, then shifted to asymmetrical designs. Marked the beginning of the Hogarth curve, or S- curve created my painter William Hogarth. The utilized large containers with elaborate arrangements. -
Early American
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Period: to
Early American
Created arrangements for personal adornment and decorations around the home. Used any flower available and placed all arrangements into household containers. -
Colonial Williamsburg
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Period: to
Colonial Williamsburg
Placed grasses, flowers and foliage into fan shaped arrangements. Began to mix different floral bouquets together -
Writing the Declaration of Independence
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American Federal
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Period: to
American Federal
Began to focus on the charm of an individual flower. Strayed away from large amounts of mixed floral bouquets. Used fewer flowers in containers. -
Victorian
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Period: to
Victorian
Used foliage and grasses to contrast textures. Placed flowers in very low containers. Large opulent overdone arrangements. Woman carried bouquets to most social gatherings also they used them as a sign of affection. -
Civil war
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Period: to
Civil war
The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states -
Modern
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Period: to
Modern
Also known as the contemporary florists. Combined line elements from the Japanese and mass designs from the Europeans. -
Hitler invaded Poland
Was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany ans the Soviet of Russia. -
Hitler died
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Cold War
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Period: to
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II