Nature and Its Symbols

For its author, Lucia Impelluso, this guidebook's main objective is “to give back to the flora and fauna that sense of wonderment, that taste of symbolic language that for so long was part and parcel of humanistic culture” (p. 9). Nature and Its Symbols aims to find a happy medium between the science and art of the natural world as it is depicted in paintings, sculpture and other works of art. As part of the Guide to Imagery series, the book points out that “what looks like a simple still life can hide an extraordinarily rich language, where every single...