An Oak Spring Flora
Author: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
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Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780965450805
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Author: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
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Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780965450805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Oak Spring Garden Library
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Published: 1997
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997-05-29
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0300242565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the latest volume in a major series that describes selections of the rare books, manuscripts, and other works of art held at Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon. The 111 items chosen for this volume on floral illustration since the later Middle Ages include Books of Hours, still-life and vanitas paintings, botanical prints, and books of instruction of every kind, from planting a garden to making flowers using colored papers or wax. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi groups the works into chapters on such topics as florilegia, women artists, tulipomania, Dutch and Flemish painting, and exotic flowers from distant lands, providing an introduction to each chapter that gives the contextual background necessary for a real understanding and appreciation of floral illustration past and present. The sheer beauty as well as extraordinary skills encountered, for example, in manuscript florilegia by Jacob Marrel and Maria Sibylla Merian, in hand-colored books by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and G.B. Ferrari, and in flower studies painted by John Constable, Margaret Mee, and others, are testament to the high status accorded floral illustration over the centuries. This handsome, richly illustrated volume will attract all those with an interest in rare books and the history of art as well as horticulturalists, botanists, and garden historians.
Author: Fabrizio Baldassarri
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-07-03
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 3110739933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study of plants, examining newly introduced species that captured physicians' curiosity, expanded their therapeutic arsenal, and challenged their long-held medical theories. The development of herbaria, the creation of botanical gardens, and the inspection of plants contributed to a new understanding of the vegetal world. Increased attention to plants led to account for their therapeutic virtues, to test and produce new drugs, to recognize the physical properties of plants, and to develop a new plant science and medicine.
Author: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 427
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dept. of Special Collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2002-03-31
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 9781402002373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries records articles of scholarly value that relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic, social and cultural environment involved in their production, distribution, conservation and description.
Author: Elizabeth Hyde
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2005-04-04
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0812238265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, and dukes and kings alike.
Author: New York Botanical Garden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0300196628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the history and significance of some of the most important works held by the renowned New York City library, including handwritten manuscripts, botanical artworks, herbals, explorer's notebooks, and nineteenth-century media.
Author: Catherine Horwood
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2012-04
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1613743408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the golden age in English history to today s gardeners and designers, this volume recognizes women s contributions to gardening in Britain and around the worldspanning more than four centuries. Despite growing vegetables for their kitchens, tending herbs for their medicine cupboards, and teaching other women about the craft before agricultural schools officially existed, women have been mere footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. These pioneers influence on the style of gardens in the present day is illustrated here in a style both accessible and scholarly. Presenting a rare bouquet, this collection shares the stories of more than 200 women who have been involved withgarden design, plant collecting, flower arranging, botanical art, garden writing, and education."
Author: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0300241461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis magnificent compendium is the fourth in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection assembled by Mrs. Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon. Herbaria describes sixty-three books and manuscripts about herbs and includes exquisite illustrations selected from the works themselves. Spanning the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, and featuring works by Brunfels, Culpeper, Monardes, and Linnaeus, among others, this authoritative catalogue will prove fascinating to botanists, bibliophiles, garden historians, and herbalists alike.