Wednesday 11 March 2015 at 16:14
Bridal beds, blushing captives, and swollen trunks - Carl Linnaeus' taxonomy of plants heralded a whole new era in 18th-century Europe of plants being spoken of in sexualised terms. Martin Kemp explores how this association between the floral and erotic reached its visual zenith in Robert Thornton's exquisitely illustrated Temple of Flora.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/03/11/sex-and-science-in-robert-thorntons-temple-of-flora/