Flowers

Author: (Dutch) Saodaoles Cladius and others
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: From the 16th-century attempts to recreate the Garden of Eden in "Bishop's Gardens" and the exotic flora newly discovered in the Americas, to the adventurous collections in the Himalayas at the end of the 19th century. This book features 179 floral illustrations selected from dozens of historically influential botanical illustration collections. These exciting species records from the Western "Age of Discovery" are each meticulously crafted by the most outstanding floral painters over the past 300 years. The exquisitely crafted and vividly depicted floral illustrations not only systematically organize and visually recreate various exotic species but also, in their meticulous and understated manner, record the euphoria of the Western "discovery of the world" since the 16th century.