Sentences with phrase «blue water lily»
By then, drugs like cannabis had arrived in Mesopotamia, while people from Turkey to Egypt experimented with local substances such as blue water lily.
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When King Tutankhamun's tomb, dating to the 14th century B.C.E., was opened in 1922, archaeologists found the boy - king's body covered with the flowers of blue water lily, a common motif in many Egyptian tomb paintings.
Ancient people from Turkey to Egypt experimented with local substances such as blue water lily, while imports like cannabis and opium made from poppies spread through early international trade networks.
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In the afternoon, light shifts to blue gold, shadows of leaves wave over the floors like lilies in water.
I think I like the Tea Rose tablecloth the best, but also really love the one you feature and the Water Lilies (in blue).
The iris also goes by the common names snake lily, yellow water iris, yellow flag, western blue flag, Douglas's flag, and water flag.
With blue fields layered with levitating blocks, or intersecting beams of contrasting blues and sometimes greens or purples, these immersive paintings evoked geometric versions of Monet's «Water Lilies.»
The overall blue - green defies theories of atmospheric perspective, and the irregular placement of water lilies defies linear perspective.
«Water Lilies in Blue» is part of hugely popular Chairish artist Trixie Pitts» Water Lily series of Contemporary works.