FOR ME - VERY DIFFERENT!
Remember the exhibition on the garden? How would you describe a garden? It was following this that I had noted on my "To see List" an exhibition entitled "Le Pouvoir des Fleurs" ("The Power of Flowers" is a word for word translation). I mentioned it to quite a few people but no-one seemed in the least bit interested in joining me for a visit to the Musee de la Vie Romantique. The museum's courtyard This museum is a little off my usual route - I guess that I was never a romantic! So had I been there? Once inside the museum it came flashing back that I had seen something with Gianni and that was "forever" ago. The artist was unknown to me. This resumes who he was... Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Southern Netherlands , known for his watercolours of roses , lilies and other flowers at Malmaison . He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been ca