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Honeysuckle Bower
The Honeysuckle Bower (c. 1609) is a self-portrait of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens and his first wife Isabella Brant. They wed on 3 October 1609, in St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, shortly after he had returned to the city after eight years in Italy.
The painting is a full-length double portrait of the couple seated in a of honeysuckle. They are surrounded by love and marriage symbolism: the honeysuckle and garden are both traditional symbols of love, and
York fern, partridgeberry, pinxter flower, polypody fern, rattlesnake orchid, shadbush, slime mold, spiny-bellied spider, spotted wintergreen, tickle grass, trailing arbutus, Virginia creeper, witch hazel ]
- 16. Multiflora Rose Hedge   [ bittersweet, bobwhite, bush honeysuckle, catbird, coral honeysuckle, fox grape, Franklinia, golden garden spider, horse nettle, Japanese honeysuckle, Japanese silverberry, mocking bird, multiflora rose, nimblewill, perfoliate tearthumb, ragweed, thistle, virgin's bower ]
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