It's About Time

  Month of May (detail) Pee. Brugge (Belgium), 14C. Illuminated latin manuscript on parchment. Origin: Benedictine Abbey of Notre Dame of Mo...

Flora holding a wreath of spring flowers by Jean Leblond 1605-1666  The Floralia was a public festival to honor the goodwill of the goddes...

By the mid-1930s, Longwood had grown from the original 202 acres to 926 due to Pierre’s purchase of 25 contiguous properties over the years....

Pierre du Pont’s love for fountains stretched back to when he was mesmerized at the age of six by the huge display of water pumps at the 187...

  From Matthew Heinecke    Maryland Bird Watchers' And Identification Group Holding on to the Sweet Divine - “The Lord God took man ...

Thank you for loving me & for always being there! Miss you daily...

1645 Joachim von Sandrart (After) Joachim von Sandrart (Published by) Jonas Suyderhoef Dutch - April

Ten years after purchasing Longwood, Pierre du Pont was just getting warmed up. By 1916 he was contemplating grand indoor facilities “design...

"I have recently experienced what I would formerly have diagnosed as an attack of insanity; that is, I have purchased a small farm,” Pi...

Le Printemps by Grégoire Huret (French, 1606-1670) published by Pierre Mariette Spring is the perfect time to celebrate Earth's Beauty...

Pierre S. du Pont was born in 1870 in a DuPont Company house overlooking the Brandywine Creek just north of Wilmington, Delaware. His early ...

Ver Anonymous, etched by Claes Visscher (1586-1652) II.  Amsterdam. Artist began as a draughtsman & engraver from 1605, but turned pub...

There have been many stewards of the land that is now called Longwood Gardens. For centuries, the native Lenni Lenape tribe fished the strea...

Diebold Lauber, Vol 1 Old Testament  St Gallen, Canton Library, Vadianische collection, Vad Slg Ms. 343c Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the ...

 Adam and Eve in Paradise” Egerton Manuscript 912, f. 10, c. 1415.  British Library In Western iconography the early Christian garden is usu...

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop painting of  Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden Paradise Gardens us...

By the mid-1930s, Longwood had grown from the original 202 acres to 926 due to Pierre’s purchase of 25 contiguous properties over the years....

1641 Wenceslaus Hollar (Czech, 1607-1677) Spring Wenceslaus Hollar was born in 1607, the son of an upper middle-class civic official. V...

God Creating Eve. Saint Beatus of Liébana, Spain  (c. 730 - c. 800) New York Public Library  In Western iconography the early Christian gard...

Pierre du Pont’s love for fountains stretched back to when he was mesmerized at the age of six by the huge display of water pumps at the 187...

The Garden of Eden, Paradise Garden, The Temptation of Adam and Eve (detail) in Concerning the Fates of Illustrious Men and Women, about 141...

Personification of Spring by Wenceslaus Hollar (Czech artist, 1607-1677)  Spring with a view of a 17C walled garden with people, beds, ...

 Adam and Eve in The Garden pf Edem Eating the Forbidden Fruit (detail), by Willem Vrelant, early 1460s I n Western iconography the early Ch...

Ten years after purchasing Longwood, Pierre du Pont was just getting warmed up. By 1916 he was contemplating grand indoor facilities “design...

God Creating the Birds and Animals in the Garden of Eden   Vatican Library Collection In Western iconography the early Christian garden is u...

William Marshall (British printmaker, 1617-1649) Woman with a Flower Basket

Adam and Eve, temptation and fal  Royal Library, El Escorial, Spain - Ms & II. 5 fol-18ll  In Western iconography the early Christian ga...

"I have recently experienced what I would formerly have diagnosed as an attack of insanity; that is, I have purchased a small farm,” Pi...

Diebold Lauber, Vol 1 Old Testament  St Gallen, Canton Library, Vadianische collection, Vad Slg Ms. 343c  Creation Mid 15C In Western iconog...

Woman Holding A Fan by Abraham Bosse (French, c 1602/1604–1676)  Bosse was a French illustrator, mainly as a printmaker in etching. He was...