# The Empire of Flora \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POUSSIN, Nicolas]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary Flora, the goddess of flowers, dances gaily through a garden peopled with characters from Ovid's Metamorphoses, all of whom transform into flowers at the moment of their death and so live on. In the foreground, Poussin includes the figures of Narcissus and the nymph Echo already familiar from his earlier painting. ## Related artworks - [A Bacchic Scene]() - [A Dance to the Music of Time]() - [A Roman Road]() - [A Sacrifice]() - [Acis and Galatea]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Annunciation]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo and the Muses \(Parnassus\)]() - [Armida Carrying off Rinaldo]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()