Everlasting Flowers between the Pages : The Making of Seventeenth-Century Florilegia /
A florilegium is a picture book filled with many species and varieties of flowers that were widely desired for seventeenth-century European gardens. While many aspects of florilegia seem simple and unimportant from our modern perspective, they grow in complexity and significance when placed into the...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2025.
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Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Emergence of Natural History ;
9.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Core Examples -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Picture Books of Colourful Flowers from the Seventeenth Century -- 2 Towards a History of Knowledge -- 3 Making Seventeenth-Century Florilegia -- 4 Overview of Core Examples and This Volume -- 1 Rare and Curious Flowers in the Seventeenth Century -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Balancing a Diversity and Variety of Flowers -- 3 The Rare and the Curious -- 4 Conclusion -- 2 Growing Flowers into Rarities and Curiosities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 How to Plant According to Seventeenth-Century Florilegia -- 3 Cultivating Rare and Curious Flowers through Care and Patience -- 4 Preparing Earth for a Good Planting Ground -- 5 A Time to Plant and a Time to Enjoy the Blooms -- 6 Conclusion -- 3 Picking Flowers for Every Season through Images and Text -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Copying Flowers -- 3 Excerpting Flowers, Extracting Knowledge -- 4 Putting Flowers in Seasonal Order -- 5 Conclusion -- 4 From Describing Flower Colours to Describing Colouring Flowers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Modifying and Reprinting Seventeenth-Century Florilegia -- 3 Leafing through a Flower Book -- 4 Describing Flowers and Their Colours -- 5 Describing How-to Colour Flowers -- 6 Conclusion -- 5 Keeping Flowers between the Pages -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preserving Flowers on Paper and Parchment -- 3 Losing Rareness and Curiousness -- 4 Capturing Flowers in the Moment(s) -- 5 Pressing Flowers for Rare and Curious Features -- 6 Keeping the Collection as a Whole -- 7 Conclusion -- 6 Making Colourful Images of Flowers in Life-Size -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Picturing Rare and Curious Flowers -- 3 Drawing Flowers Life-Size -- 4 Adding Colours to Flowers -- 5 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- 1 A Customisable Genre Embracing Different Forms of Knowledge -- 2 A Time to Make -- Appendix 1: Making Colours Series -- Appendix 2: Planting Pigments ColLAB -- Appendix 3: Hortus floridus Iesse, Or, The Imperfect Book of Flowers : A Twenty - First - Century Florilegium -- Bibliography -- Index of Names, Works, and Flowers. | |
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