| #1694569 in Books | Harry Abrams, Inc.: | 1998-09-30 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 12.75 x.75 x9.50l,2.90 | File type: PDF | 144 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Renaissance Marvel!|By North Star|I am an artist with a lifelong interest (and training) in herbalism and botany. This is a particularly gorgeous book, with 142 colorful watercolors depicting plants and flowers popularly used for medicine, food, flavoring, and fragrance during the Renaissance. Most of the plates are on single pages, while a few straddle two pages; some are|.com |During the Renaissance, the boundary between art and science was not as clearly drawn as it is in the information age. One of the key functions of science in da Vinci's day was to accurately and elegantly depict the denizens of the natural world, and nowh
Commissioned from an unknown artist by the Dutch pharmacist Theodorus Clutius as research material for doctors and herbalists - and later used by artists - the botanical watercolours illustrated in this book epitomize the Renaissance interest in and exploration of the natural world. They were considered lost for 40 years after World War II until their discovery in the Jagiellon University Library in Cracow, Poland. The watercolours rival those of Duerer, Leonardo and Bes...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Clutius Botanical Watercolors | Claudia Swan. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
