The golden age of botanical art / Martyn Rix.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rix, Martyn (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Botanical illustration.
Botanical artists.
Flowers in art.
Physical Description:256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The origins of botanical art
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Early works of the sixteenth century
  • Jacopo Ligozzi
  • Seventeenth-century florilegia
  • Dutch flower paintings
  • North American plants
  • Linnaeus and plant classification
  • Travellers to the Levant
  • Maria Sybilla Merian
  • The exploration of Russia and Japan
  • Les vélins du muséum
  • Botany bay and beyond
  • Sir Joseph Banks
  • The golden age in England
  • Mrs Delany and her paper mosaicks
  • South American adventures
  • Thornton's the temple of flora, or garden of nature
  • The golden age in France
  • Empress Joséphine
  • Botanical and horticultural illustrated journals
  • Henry C. Andrews
  • Early Chinese plant drawings
  • Père David and the French missionaries
  • The company school in India
  • The story of Flora Danica 1761-1883
  • A new era at Kew
  • George Maw
  • Victorian travellers
  • Elwes and the genus Lilium
  • Bringing China to Europe
  • Modern florilegia
  • The flowers of war and beyond
  • Exhibiting botanical watercolours
  • Carrying on the tradition.