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The Golden Age of Botanical Artby Martyn Rix
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The seventeenth century heralded a golden age of exploration, as intrepid travelers sailed around the world to gain firsthand knowledge of previously unknown continents. These explorers also collected the world’s most beautiful flora, and often their findings were recorded for posterity by talented professional artists. The Golden Age of Botanical Art tells the story of these exciting plant-hunting journeys and marries it with full-color reproductions of the stunning artwork they produced. Covering work through the nineteenth century, this lavishly illustrated book offers readers a look at 250 rare or unpublished images by some of the world’s most important botanical artists. Truly global in its scope, The Golden Age of Botanical Art features work by artists from Europe, China, and India, recording plants from places as disparate as Africa and South America. Martyn Rix has compiled the stories and art not only of well-known figures—such as Leonardo da Vinci and the artists of Empress Josephine Bonaparte—but also of those adventurous botanists and painters whose names and work have been forgotten. A celebration of both extraordinarily beautiful plant life and the globe-trotting men and women who found and recorded it, The Golden Age of Botanical Art will enchant gardeners and art lovers alike. About the AuthorMartyn Rix is a botanist and the editor of Curtiss Botanical Magazine. Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 The Origins of Botanical Art Leonardo da Vinci 2 Early Works of the Sixteenth Century Jacopo Ligozzi 3 Seventeenth-Century Florilegia Dutch Flower Paintings 4 North American Plants Linnaeus and Plant Classification 5 Travellers to the Levant Maria Sybilla Merian 6 The Exploration of Russia and Japan Les Vélins du Muséum 7 Botany Bay and Beyond Sir Joseph Banks 8 The Golden Age in England Mrs. Delany and her Paper Mosaicks 9 South American Adventures Thornton’s The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature 10 The Golden Age in France Empress Joséphine 11 Botanical and Horticultural Illustrated Journals Henry C. Andrews 12 Early Chinese Plant Drawings Père David and the French Missionaries 13 The Company School in India The Story of Flora Danica 1761-1883 14 A New Era at Kew George Maw 15 Victorian Travellers Elwes and the Genus Lilium 16 Bringing China to Europe Modern Florilegia 17 The Flowers of War and Beyond Exhibiting Botanical Watercolours 18 Carrying on the Tradition
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