Flowers

Author: Socrates Cradis
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
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 collecting in the Himalayas at the end of the 19th century. The 179 floral illustrations in this book are selected from dozens of historically influential botanical illustration collections. These exciting species records from Western "Age of Discovery" were meticulously drawn 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, document the euphoria of Western "discovery of the world" since the 16th century.