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typical design consisted of a single flower with a single bud or leaf on either side repeated as a unit
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Used flowers for decoration wreaths and temple offer
A typical design consisted of a single flower with a single bud or leaf on either side repealed as a unit -
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Used flowers for adornment
• Continued the use of wreaths and garlands • Created the “Horn of Plenty” or Cornucopia -
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Used less graceful designs compared to the Greeks in baskets and cornucopias
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Brought together Greek and Roman Period
influences
• Began to incorporate fruit within garlands
• Placed arrangements in baskets, goblets or low containers
– example: commonly designed trees using foliage and flowers with symmetrical principles in mind -
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Created large, symmetrical arrangements with bright colors
Click to return to European
– more naturalistic look
• Used flowers for more than religious purposes
• Introduced the Christmas wreath -
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Also referred to as Flemish
• Created symmetrical designs, then shifted to asymmetrical designs -
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Used any flowers available and use household containers
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Placed grasses, flowers and foliage into
fan-shaped arrangements
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The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776
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Began to focus on the charm of an
individual flower
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War of 1812, (June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815), conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent.
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Used foliage and grasses to contrast textures • Placed flowers in very low containers
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The Civil War was fought in 1861 after decades of tensions between the southern and northern states over slavery, westward expansion and state rights. The election of Abraham Lincoln as President, caused eleven states to secede from the Union beginning with South Carolina and form the Confederate States of America.
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World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918.
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World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China
