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This book celebrates the reunion-- for the first time in twenty-four years and only the second time in their history--of two masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos during his tenure as prior of the Charterhouse of Bruges in the 1440s: The Frick (...)

In the East, some plants have been imbued with a special meaning and symbolism beyond their natural properties. This book presents a series of beautifully hand-drawn plates of oriental plants.