Today is the spring equinox, which marks Nowruz, Iranian New Year. Officially the end of winter, and a time of renewal, we celebrate with these illustrations of Tulipa, by Sebastian Schedel (1570-1628). The genus was first cultivated in Iran.

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When your PFP merges with pyschedelic dream state

-Shot for the art pal 💚

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Totentanz (Dance of Death), illustration by Michael Wolgemut from Liber Chronicarum, also known as the Nuremberg Chronicle. Date: c. 1493, by Hartmann Schedel

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