UN JARDIN DEDEN. CHEFS-DOEUVRE DE LILLUSTRATION BOTANIQUE: MI - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 3822815225 ISBN 13: 9783822815229

Publisher: TASCHEN, 2001

Synopsis

Coinciding with the exhibition of botanical illustration at the National Library of Vienna, Taschen has chosen over 500 works from the library's extensive archives to be reproduced in this new publication, 'A Garden Eden: Masterpieces of Botanical Book Illustration'. This publication, starting with 6th century Byzantine manuscripts, traces the tradition and drawings, right up to recent publications of the 20th Century. Exquisite colour reproductions of illustrations, a sheer tribute to the long tradition of botanical illustrations.

About this title

Review:

"A Marvellian world of botanical delights unfurls. Art blends with science in plates that range from the Byzantine to the Baroque." - The Times, London"

About the Author:

Prof. Dr. H. Walter Lack is Director at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem and Professor at the Free University of Berlin. He has published The Flora Graeca Story, Ofxford 1998, A Garden of Eternity, Berne 2000, and most recently Florilegium Imperiale, Munich 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: TASCHEN
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 3822815225
• ISBN 13: 9783822815229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576