Vegetable Image

In ancient painting vegetation was rarely pictured. For example on the Sofia Cathedral frescos in Kiev (11th century) there were only separate elements. Trees of different forms have been appeared on icons since the 14th century and they have become more and more complicated. Lower you can see the pictures of the vegetations in different manners (schools).

	Old Russian painting of the 14th century.
	Old Russian painting of the 15th-16th centuries. Such kind of vegetable image was used in D.N.Butorin's and I.P.Vakurov's works.
	Palekh painting of the 17th century. Such kind of vegetable image was used in A.V.Kotukhin's and I.V.Markichev's works.
	Palekh painting of the 18th century (from icon "John the Baptist"). Such kind of vegetable image you can see in the works of I.M.Bakanov.
	Vegetation in the works of I.P.Vakurov. Based on the traditions of the 14th century Vakurov has founded quite fantastic flowerstyle trees for fairy compositions.
	I.M.Bakanov's flowerstyle tree. The tree was founded on a model of Dmitry Cathedral's frescos in Vladimir. It was used in fairy compositions.