A project for Year 10, "Lilies & Cornucopias" in observational drawing, oil painting, sculpture, photography, more observational drawing and oil pastel.

1. Lilies and Cornucopias
Flowers, shells and other forms.

2. Cornucopia – the horn of plenty.
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3. The cornucopia has ancient
beginnings.
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A first century AD Roman
sculpture of Livia Drusilla,
wife of the Emperor Augustus.
She was the most powerful woman
in the Roman Empire and is shown
as the source of all wealth
through the symbol of the
cornucopia.

4. Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and
Salvator Rosa.
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5. A popular symbol of wealth, power
and plenty.
The State Shield of Copiaco, Chile. The Great Seal of the State of North Carolina, USA.
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6. Cornucopias of bread and wheat.
In Europe bread
from wheat is the
most important staple food.
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7. Cornucopias in sculpture.
Cornucopia by Frank Stella
and a cornucopia ice-sculpture.
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8. Flower interiors …
Diagram of a grassflower and a lily.
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9. contain and promote.
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10. Flowers in art …
Floralis Generalis by Eduardo Catalano,
23 metres high, in Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
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11. come in many forms.
Public sculpture, Glenrothes, Scotland.
Red Calla Lily by Georgia O’Keeffe, USA.
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