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El pintor floral francés Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) se dedicó en cuerpo y alma a las artes botánicas y plasmó la diversidad de las plantas con flores en acuarelas que se publicaron como grabados punteados, con cuidadas descripciones. Adorado y admirado por la alta sociedad parisiense, contó (...)

El 15 de diciembre de 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), profesor de botánica en la Universidad de Múnich y director del Royal Botanic Garden, fue llevado a la tumba en un ataúd cubierto de hojas de palmera recién cortadas. Las frondas eran un guiño a Historia natural de las (...)

English, French, GermanFlower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (17591840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons (...)

French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including (...)

En el principio era el Verbo y en la Edad Media fueron los reyes, los príncipes y los personajes religiosos de alto rango quienes produjeron biblias ilustradas con un extraordinario trabajo artesanal mediante su riqueza e influencia.Esta edición recopila 50 de los mejores manuscritos medievales de (...)

The Book of Miracles first surfaced only a few years ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-complete illustrated manuscript, created in Augsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages of large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor, (...)

Have you ever thought of citrus fruits as celestial bodies, angelically suspended in the sky? Perhaps not, but J. C. Volkamer (1644 1720) did-commissioning an extravagant and breathtaking series of large-sized copperplates representing citrons, lemons, and bitter oranges in surreal scenes of (...)

Featuring more than 500 reusable stickers, this beautifully illustrated and jam-packed activity book brings the world of bugs to life.Following the success of The Big Book of Bugs, here is an interactive book that brings the world of bugs to a child's fingertips. The activities in the book invite (...)