Libros

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 (...)

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, (...)