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Annunciation
Anon. XV cent. Church of San Spirito, Florence 
 
   
 

Irises and lilies ... some say the lily of Florence is really an iris, as is the lily of Paris and that the little yellow marsh irises that grew along the banks of the Nile and were painted by the Egyptians turned up as irises or lilies in christian art. 

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