Results for "symbolic"
33 pages found.
Place
Lurie Garden
A public garden on Chicago’s largest green roof
Chicago, 🇺🇸 United States · Flower garden, Jun to Oct
Decoration
Flower girl
A young girl who scatters petals in a wedding procession
Custom
Decoration
Haft-sinهفتسین
A table of seven symbolic items for Nowruz, the Persian New Year
🇮🇷 Iran · Arrangement, March
Decoration
Nowruzنوروز
Spring New Year festival marked by fire, greenery, and festive gatherings
🇮🇷 Iran and 9 more · Custom, March
Decoration
Christmas decoration
Ornaments, wreaths, and festive displays for the Christmas season
🇩🇪 Germany and 7 more · Arrangement, Jan to Dec
Decoration
Paper lantern
Lanterns made of paper for festivals, light, and celebration across Asia and beyond
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Parade or display
Decoration
Vanitas
A style of still life art showing the fleeting nature of life and worldly things
🇪🇸 Spain · Art or design
Decoration
Easter palmpalma wielkanocna, verba
A decorated willow or juniper branch for Palm Sunday in Poland and Lithuania
🇱🇹 Lithuania and 3 more · Offering or rite
Decoration
Still life
Artworks showing arranged objects like flowers, fruit, and vessels
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 4 more · Art or design
Decoration
Bird-and-flower painting花鳥畫
A genre of East Asian painting showing birds, flowers, and nature’s creatures
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Art or design
Decoration
Four Gentlemen四君子
The four symbolic plants of Chinese and East Asian art
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Art or design
Decoration
Palmette
A fan-shaped floral motif from ancient Egypt and Greece, used in art and architecture
🇪🇬 Egypt and 2 more · Art or design
Decoration
Gosekku五節句
Five seasonal festivals once held at the Japanese imperial court
🇯🇵 Japan · Custom
Decoration
Rikka立花
A formal Japanese ikebana style with upright, symbolic floral arrangements
Arrangement
Decoration
Seika生花
A classical Japanese ikebana style with triangular lines and seasonal flowers
🇯🇵 Japan · Arrangement
Decoration
Charbaghچهارباغ
A four-part Persian and Mughal garden divided by water or paths
🇮🇷 Iran and 3 more · Garden style
Decoration
Olive wreathκότινος
A crown of wild olive branches given to Olympic victors in ancient Greece
🇬🇷 Greece · Offering or rite
Decoration
Lei
A garland or necklace of flowers, leaves, or shells given to honor or celebrate
🇺🇸 United States and 3 more · Garland or wreath
Decoration
Alpanaআলপনা
Bengali ritual floor art painted with rice flour on festive and religious occasions
🇮🇳 India and 1 more · Carpet or floor pattern
Decoration
Songkranสงกรานต์
The Thai New Year marked by water rituals and festive gatherings in April
🇹🇭 Thailand · Custom, April
Decoration
Vesak
The Buddhist festival marking the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka and 7 more · Custom, Apr to Jun
Decoration
Lotus throneपद्मासन
A stylized lotus flower base for divine figures in Indian and Asian art
🇮🇳 India · Offering or rite
PeachPrunus persica
A flowering fruit tree from China, grown for its pink blossoms and sweet fruit
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering tree
PomegranatePunica granatum
A shrub with bright red flowers and a fruit full of edible seeds
🇮🇷 Iran and 9 more · Flowering shrub
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera
The pink aquatic flower sacred in Asia and grown for food, worship and beauty
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Water flower
Hibiscus
A tropical genus with large, colourful trumpet-shaped flowers
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Wildflower
Bay laurelLaurus nobilis
Evergreen tree with aromatic leaves used as bay leaf in cooking
🇬🇷 Greece and 9 more · Flowering tree
Guelder-roseViburnum opulus
A white-flowered shrub with red berries, rooted in Slavic and Ukrainian tradition
🇷🇺 Russia and 1 more · Flowering shrub
EdelweissLeontopodium nivale
A woolly white star-shaped flower of the European mountains
🇦🇹 Austria and 5 more · Wildflower
Purple mountain saxifrageSaxifraga oppositifolia
A mat-forming purple flower of Arctic and high mountain regions
🇨🇦 Canada and 4 more · Wildflower
OliveOlea europaea
Evergreen tree grown for its fruit and oil across the Mediterranean and beyond
🇪🇸 Spain and 7 more · Flowering tree
Calla lilyZantedeschia
Showy funnel-shaped flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Prunus mume
The fragrant plum blossom tree that blooms in winter across East Asia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Flowering tree
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Palmette: Lameiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Prunus mume: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gosekku: Kakizaki Hakyo, Public domain, source
- Bay laurel: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, source
- Leontopodium: Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Peach: Jack Dykinga, USDA, Public domain, source
- Pomegranate: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hibiscus: Marshman at en.wikipedia / Eric Guinther, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rikka: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Seika: Gryffindor, CC0, source
- Guelder-rose: Waitblock, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Charbagh: Muhammad Atique Alam, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Olive wreath: FocalPoint, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lei: possibly Fernando Le Bleux, Public domain, source
- Alpana: Tripan123, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Purple mountain saxifrage: Roger Culos, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Songkran: ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ - เ, CC BY 3.0, source
- Vesak: ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ - เ, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lotus throne: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Sacred lotus: T.Voekler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Flower girl: lil'bear, CC BY 2.0, source
- Calla lily: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Haft-sin: HengamehRM, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nowruz: Katzenfee50, CC0, source
- Christmas decoration: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Paper lantern: PhiloVivero, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vanitas: Unknown, Public domain, source
- Easter palm: Evaldas Liutkus, CC BY 2.0, source
- Still life: Willem Kalf, Public domain, source
- Bird-and-flower painting: Qian Xuan, Public domain, source
- Four Gentlemen: Sun Long (孫隆) and Chen Lu (陳錄), Public domain, source
- Olive: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lurie Garden: Señor Codo, CC BY-SA 2.0, source