The Golden Age of Flowers: Botanical Illustration in the Age of Discovery 1600-1800 - Brossura

Fisher, Celia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0712358951 ISBN 13: 9780712358958

Casa editrice: British Library Board, 2013

Riassunto

The 17th and 18th centuries saw a flowering of botanical illustration and witnessed the production of some of the greatest books of plant illustration ever produced, including such outstanding examples as the Hortus Eystettensis, the work of Maria Sybilla Merian, Thornton's Temple of Flora, Banks's Florilegium, and Sibthorpe's Flora Graeca. In this beautiful book, Celia Fisher has selected more than 100 of the most stunning flower images from this period, and each plant has its own brief biography, giving the context in which it was discovered and the personalities who first named and nurtured it. Many of the flowers in the book are now familiar, while others remain very exotic. Some of the illustrations are appealing for their naive delicacy but most have never been superseded in scientific accuracy, and they remain one of the best proofs of art and science as complementary disciplines.

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L'autore:

Celia Fisher gained her MA and PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she studied flowers in fifteenth-century paintings and manuscripts. She has worked for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew as part of a project evaluating the uses of plants. She lectures and writes widely on the history of plants and gardens in art, and is a keen gardener. Her publications includeFlowers and Fruit, Still Life Paintings, Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts, andThe Medieval Flower Book.

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Book by Fisher Celia

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• Editore: British Library Board
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0712358951
• ISBN 13: 9780712358958
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144