A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration
80Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)Availability: In Stock“Art, beauty, and knowledge come together in A Garden Eden. A comprehensive coffee table book on botany with beautiful images. Love of aesthetics is almost the only thing that counts.”
“A selection of the best works in botanical illustration.”
“A Marvellian world of botanical delights unfurls. Art blends with science in plates that range from the Byzantine to the Baroque.”
A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration
80Heaven on Earth
Botanical masterworks from the National Library of Vienna
From Byzantine manuscripts right through to 19th-century masterpieces, through peonies, callas, and chrysanthemums, these exquisite reproductions dazzle in their accuracy and their aesthetics. Whether in gently furled leaves, precisely textured fruits, or the sheer beauty and variety of colors, we celebrate an art form as tender as it is precise, and ever more resonant amid our growing awareness of our ecological surroundings and the preciousness of natural flora.
The author
H. Walter Lack is a professor at the Free University of Berlin and former director of the Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. A leading expert in the history of botany, his research focuses on the global transfer of useful and ornamental plants from a cultural historical perspective. He is the author of TASCHEN’s Garden of Eden, The Book of Palms and Redouté. The Book of Flowers.
A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration
Hardcover, 25 x 34.5 cm, 4.33 kg, 576 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-7739-7
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