An Oak Spring Flora
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An Oak Spring Flora
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Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1997-05-29
An Oak Spring Flora written by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-29 with categories.
This 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.
An Oak Spring Flora
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Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
An Oak Spring Flora written by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Botanical illustration categories.
An Oak Spring Flora
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Author : Lucia Tonfiorgi Tomasi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
An Oak Spring Flora written by Lucia Tonfiorgi Tomasi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
An Oak Spring Herbaria
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Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-30
An Oak Spring Herbaria written by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with Science categories.
This 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.
Bunny Mellon
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Author : Meryl Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-26
Bunny Mellon written by Meryl Gordon and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands of pages of her letters, diaries and appointment calendars and has interviewed more than 175 people to capture the spirit of this talented American original.
Plants In 16th And 17th Century
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Author : Fabrizio Baldassarri
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-07-04
Plants In 16th And 17th Century written by Fabrizio Baldassarri and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with History categories.
In 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.
Flora Illustrata
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Author : New York Botanical Garden
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Flora Illustrata written by New York Botanical Garden and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Art categories.
Presents 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.
Rethinking Art History
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Author : Donald Preziosi
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Rethinking Art History written by Donald Preziosi and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Art categories.
A general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that many of the dilemmas and contradictions of art history today are not new but can be traced back to problems surrounding the founding of the discipline, its institutionalization, and its academic expansion since the 1870s. "Donald Preziosi has written a timely and incisive study of the methods and assumptions of art history in the modern period. As the book unfolds, one realizes that art history was never as unitary and monolithic as the phrase 'the discipline of art history' suggests, but is in fact a complicated and highly contradictory range of practices whose disciplinary coherence may be more mythical than real. This is a deliberately discomforting book; however, for its clear-sightedness, rigor, and wit, it is a book to be welcomes by everyone concerned with the present condition and future direction of visual studies."--Norman Bryson, Harvard University "An important and courageous book, Rethinking Art History is a rigorous and original contribution to the current post-structuralist and postmodernist debates in cultural studies here and abroad."--Steven Z. Levine, Bryn Mawr College "Through this kind of reading of the discourse of art history, Preziosi provides some acute analysis of the metaphors and stratagems which continue to discipline the discipline of art history."
Presidents Gardens
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Author : Linda Holden Hoyt
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-08-10
Presidents Gardens written by Linda Holden Hoyt and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-10 with History categories.
The White House is the most famous house in the world – yet its 18 acres of perfectly manicured grounds and magnificent gardens, much beloved by the Presidents and their families, are rarely seen by the public. This book is a horticultural celebration of all the Presidents' gardens, beginning with George Washington's beloved Mount Vernon and looking at the development of White House gardens over two centuries. Rare photographs perfectly illustrate highlights from the best of the presidential gardens, including Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden, the Roosevelt wartime White House greenhouses and Michelle Obama's sustainability-inspired vegetable garden, which now produces food that is served to the First Family. The text is peppered with lively comments and useful tips from gardeners who contributed to White House beautification projects under many different Administrations.
The Flowering Of Florence
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Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Flowering Of Florence written by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, of sixty-eight works of art, primarily from Florentine collections, The Flowering of Florence explores the close ties between art and the natural sciences in Tuscany as seen in the botanical renderings created in Florence for the Medici grand dukes from the late 1500s through the early 1700s. The catalog comprises an essay and checklist with reproductions of the exquisite works in the show. Examples include Jacopo Ligozzi's plant drawings in tempera on paper from the Uffizi Gallery, Giovanna Garzoni's fruit and flower paintings on vellum, and Bartolomeo Bimbi's later and much larger still-life paintings.