This book is an alternative history of Western art and a rare dictionary of flowers. It tells about 40 kinds of flowers in 170 world-famous paintings according to the four major themes of earthly flowers, love flowers, mourning flowers and fatal flowers. Flower stories and their origins and meanings in famous paintings, such as laurel, azalea, camellia, tulip, hydrangea, forget-me-not, oleander, etc.
本书是一部另类的西方艺术史，也是一本罕见的花语词典，按俗世之花、爱之花、哀之花、致命之花四大主题，讲述了170幅世界名画中的40种花卉的花语故事及其在名画中的来路和寓意，如月桂、杜鹃花、茶花、郁金香、绣球花、勿忘我、夹竹桃等。
本书是一部另类的西方艺术史，也是一本罕见的花语词典，按俗世之花、爱之花、哀之花、致命之花四大主题，讲述了170幅世界名画中的40种花卉的花语故事及其在名画中的来路和寓意，如月桂、杜鹃花、茶花、郁金香、绣球花、勿忘我、夹竹桃等。
