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Period: 2800 BCE to 28 BCE
Egyptians
Used flowers for decoration, garlands, wreaths and temple offerings -
Period: 600 BCE to 150 BCE
Greeks
Used flowers for adornment, continued the use of wreaths and garland. The Greeks created the “Horn of plenty” or Cornucopia. -
Period: 28 BCE to 325
Romans
Began the use of flowers for fragrant purposes, also designed garlands, wreaths and crowns which were more elaborate than Greeks. -
Period: 320 to 600
Byzantines
Byzantines began to incorporate fruit within garlands and brought together Greek and Roman period influences. Placed arrangements in baskets, goblets or low containers -
Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
Created large, symmetrical arrangements with bright colors. Used flowers for more than religious purposes -
Period: to
Baroque
Created symmetrical designs, then shifted to asymmetrical designs. Marked the beginning of the Hogarth curve, or S-curve. -
Period: to
Colonial Williamsburg
Placed grasses, flowers and foliage into fan-shaped arrangements. Began to mix different floral bouquets together. -
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 -
Period: to
Victorian
Used foliage and grasses to contrast
textures. Placed flowers in very low containers
• Upper-class show of wealth
– large, opulent, overdone arrangements – women carried bouquets to
gatherings
– used as a sign of affection