The Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers Spawn and his true love

and his true love

slowly but surely

and was quick to blame subordinates for his own disastrous mistakes

It’s October 1502

a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone

The Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers Spawn and his true loveShort lived but highly influential, the Pre Raphaelite movement was fueled by a rejection of academic artistic conventions and a longing for the aesthetic simplicity and moral sincerity of medieval and early Renaissance art. But it also coincided with a Victorian obsession with botany, gardening and flower arranging. As a result, painters such as Rosetti, Millais and Hughes populated their works with floral symbols that were steeped in religious and