Tag Archives: Botanical Art
Natural History Art Treasures under $10,000
Collecting original art doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, there are a surprising number [...]
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Jun
Jun
A Guide to Collecting Antique Botanical Prints
Loved for their beauty, whimsy, and relative affordability, botanical prints offer a wonderful avenue for [...]
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May
May
How to Distinguish Between the Various Editions of Besler’s ‘Garden of Eichstätt’
A practical guide to understanding and identifying the different editions of Besler’s folio through paper [...]
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Jul
Jul
Plant Mutations in the Botanical Prints of Pierre-Joseph Redouté
A consideration of the artistic rendering of the Tulip Breaking Virus, and the phenomenon of [...]
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Jun
Jun
Encountering the Amazon through Margaret Mee’s Lens
A consideration of Mee's implicit and overt depictions of symbiotic ecosystems in her paintings of [...]
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Jun
Jun
The Historical Significance of Botanical Illustration
A consideration of the motives behind picturing plants including the functional uses and theoretical implications [...]
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Jun
Jun
The Symbolic Implications of the Pineapple
Visually flamboyant, gustatorily delicious, and polarizing when placed on pizza, the pineapple is a fruit [...]
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Jun
Jun
A Comparative Analysis of Poiteau and Brookshaw’s Pomological Prints
A Consideration of the Aesthetic, Technical, and Didactic Components of Poiteau and Brookshaw’s Depictions of [...]
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Dec
Dec
Basilius Besler’s Hortus Eystettensis or Garden of Eichstätt
A Floral Monument Lending Perpetuity to Temporality
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Dec
Dec
Merian’s Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname
Visualizing Contained Ecosystems and Insect Development
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