Botanical Sketchbooks
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (977 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616895888 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Wow florine Beautiful, beautiful book A delight for artists and plant lovers alike. The reproductions are crisp and clear - and there are lots of them!. Five Stars Jeanne Hurford Good review of the drawing/painting process.. Five Stars Fantastic!
Helen and William Bynum are historians of science and medicine who also have a particular interest in horticulture and the importance of plants in human culture and society. . They have written or edited numerous books, including Great Discoveries in Medicine and, most recently, Remarkable Plants
But it is often these early attempts that give us real insight into the firsthand experiences and adventures of the botanists, artists, collectors, and explorers behind them.This exquisite visual compendium of botanical sketches by eighty artists from around the world brings these personal and vividly spontaneous records back into the light. While there are many histories of botanical art featuring beautiful paintings and finished drawings, the artists' preparatory sketches, first impressions, and scribbled notes on paper are rarely seen. Recording the world of plant and animal life and documenting the strange beauty of the natural world have been human passions ever since the first cave paintings. Filled with remarkable images from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, sourced from the unparalleled collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Library, Art & Archives, and other libraries, museums, and archives, Botanical Sketchbooks also provides fascinating biographical portraits of the intriguing characters featured within, including such renowned artists, scientists, and amateur botanists as Leonardo da Vinci, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Carl Linnaeus, Maria Sibylla Merian, Mark Catesby, and Helen and Margaret Shelley (sisters of the novelist Mary Shelley), among many others.
She financed her own scientific expeditions to find subjects to draw, which was a pretty scandalous practice for a woman in those days. It should be included in history of science and scientific illustration collections. As the title implies, these are not necessarily finished works but preliminary sketches, unfinished compositions, test runs, and explorations that form the foundation of such works. Unlike many similar books, amateurs are profiled alongside famous artists and scientists. The work is from some of the world's most well known artists, scientists and naturalists. Although there are gorgeous books of botanical drawings, this one is a look behind the scenes. The four sections of the book are "Made on Location," "Doing Science," "Making Art," and "A Pleasing Occupation." Each section highlights significant artists and their work-from those who worked primarily in the fie