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For the Aztec culture in Mexico and Inca in Peru
the sunflower was sacred, it was used as a
symbol that represented the Sun God National
Science Foundation
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Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641)
Self-portrait circa 1632
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After Anthony van Dyck - Sir Kenelm Digby with a
sunflower National Trust
Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641) Sir Kenelm
Digby, c.1635 Royal Museums Greenwich
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Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853-1919) Age of
seventeen Thielska
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Friedrich Fehr (German, 1862-1927) Girl with
sunflower, 1895
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Seasons 1897 Summer
John George Brown (1831-1913) The Sunflower Girl
1880
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Clytia, or Clytie, was a water nymph, daughter of
Oceanus and Tethys in Greek mythology. She was
loved by Apollo. Apollo, having loved her,
abandoned her for Leucothea and left her
deserted. She was so angered by his treatment
that she told Leucothoe's father, Orchamus, about
the affair. Since Apollo had defiled Leucothea,
Orchamus had her put to death by burial alive in
the sands. Clytie had wanted Apollo back and had
wanted to win him back by taking away his new
love, but her actions only hardened Apollo's
heart against her. She sat naked, with neither
food nor drink, for nine days on the rocks,
staring at the sun, Apollo, and mourning his
departure. After nine days, the suffering turned
her yellow and brown, and she was transformed
into a sunflower (some researchers claim
heliotrope or marigold), which turns its head
always to look longingly at Apollo's chariot of
the sun. This story is told in Ovid's
Metamorphoses
Charles de la Fosse (1636-1716) Clytie turned
into a Sunflower by Apollo, 1688
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Clytia turning into a sunflower (Museo del Prado)
sculpted by Bernini's pupil Giulio Cartari for
Christina of Sweden
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Clytie by Filippo Parodi (Genova 1630- 1702)
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Clytie by Hiram Powers, ca. 1867 Smithsonian
American Art Museum
Follower of Annibale Carracci (15601609) Clytie
and Cupid Cincinnati Art Museum
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Evelyn De Morgan (18551919) Clytie
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Nicolas Colombel (1644-1717) Clytie
Clytie T. Nichols, 1864 VA Museum
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Clytie Roman marble created between 40 and 50
AD now in the British Museum
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Clytie, a bust, after Ridgway, English, 1857
Charles Townley and the Clytie by Johan
Zoffany, 1782
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George Frederic Watts (British, 1817-1904) Clytie
Clytie by Louis Welden Hawkins (1849-1910)
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William Henry Rinehart (American, 1825-1874)
Clytie, 1872
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Clytie (1848) par Joseph Lescorn? (1799-1872)
Amiens, Musée de Picardie
Clytie by Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896)
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Clizia - Onofrio Pepe (Italian, 1945)
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Clizia Onofrio Pepe (Italian, 1945)
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Clytie in Villa Durazzo Centurione Park in Santa
Margherita Ligure, Italy
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Madame de Montespan en déshabillée by school
of Pierre Mignard (Châteaux de Versailles)
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Madame de Montespan en déshabillée by school
of Pierre Mignard (Châteaux de Versailles)
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) Bouquet of sunflowers,
1881 Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) The Artist's Garden at
Vétheuil, 1881, National Gallery of Art
Claude Monet Portrait of Suzanne Hoschede with
Sunflowers, 1890
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Claude Monets sunflower field by Janice Rae
Pariza
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Sunflowers
Anne Cotterill (1933-2010) Sunflowers with Pears
Blank
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Charles E. Burchfield Moon through Young
Sunflowers, 1916
Frank Brangwyn (18671956) Sunflowers Royal
Academy of Arts
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Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957) Girl with
sunflowers, 1941
Diego Rivera - Desnudo con girasoles, 1946
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Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957) Sunflowers
Norton Museum of Art
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Sunflower, 1911
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Sunflower, 1939, Vienna
museum
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Sunflower, 1916
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Sunflower, 1911
Sunflower, 1917
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Sunflower, 1909
Sunflower, 1908
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Sunflower, 1916
Emil Nolde (ca. 1930) Sunflowers (ca. 1930)
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James Tissot (French, 1836 - 1902) Behold He
Standeth behind our wall, 1894
Ode to Egon Schiele's sunflower by Yvonne Vander
Kooi
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Ito Jakuchu Sunflower rooster, 1757 Imperial
Household Agency Sannomaru Shozokan
Gildaro Antezana (1938-1976) La danza de los
girasoles
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Head of a
woman in front of sunflowers
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Sunflowers, 1909-18
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Friedrich August von Kaulbach (18501920) Girls
with sunflowers
Emily S. Readshaw (late 19th Century)
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Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) The
sunflowers, 1943
Georges Braque - Les Soleils (The sunflowers)
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Gustav Klimt - Sunflower, 1905-06 (110110cm)
Private collection
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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Farm garden with
sunflowers, 1906
Jacob Maris - A girl seated outside a house, 1867
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Farm garden with
sunflowers, 1906
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Gustave Caillebotte - Sunflowers on the banks of
the Seine, 1886
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) Sunflowers
garden at Petit Gennevilliers
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Henri Matisse (1869 -1954) Sunflowers in a vase
1899, State Hermitage Museum
Henri Matisse - Bouquet of sunflowers
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Issei Nakagawa (Japan, 1893-1991) Sunflower series
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Jehudith Sobel (Polish, 1924-2012) Sunflowers
Jehudith Sobel - Still Life with sunflowers in a
vase
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2023
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