A symbol of the transition from girlhood to womanhood, butterflies are also tied to many aspects of female ritual and experience. Yanagawa Shigenobu I, Two Dancers in Butterfly Costumes (circa 1820s).

But Van Gogh had worked as an art dealer as a younger man, and was very well-educated in art history. His cultural knowledge comes through in the way he represented the flowers.

The Islamic art and architecture is not characterised by pictorial representation of animals or human figurines because Islam does not allow usage of either any symbols or representation of animals or ...