Everlasting Flowers between the Pages : The Making of Seventeenth-Century Florilegia /

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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Main Author: Chen, Jessie Wei-Hsuan (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Emergence of Natural History ; 9.

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Art History.
Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.