CELIA FISHER is both an art historian and a plantswoman. At the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, she researched the uses of plants
worldwide before going on to study at the Courtauld Institute.
There she specialised in the history of plants in art. She now
lives in Kew, lectures and identifies flowers in artworks for
galleries and art historians. Her articles have appeared in art
and gardening journals, including Apollo, Country Life and
Hortus and she has written Flowers in the National Gallery for
London's National Gallery and Medieval Flowers for the British
Library. Her main relaxation is gardening and her town garden
has been open under the National Gardens Scheme. Her other title
for Frances Lincoln is Flowers of the Renaissance
(9780711230682). This book is about different ways of looking at
flowers - artistically rather than scientifically, but not
simply as decoration. The chosen examples represent the art
movements of their time, together with something more extreme
and passionate coming from the individ