An Oak Spring Flora: Flower Illustration from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time- A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art in the Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon (Vol 3)

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This is the contemporary volume in a major series that describes selections of the rare books, manuscripts, and other artworks held at Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon. The 111 items chosen for this volume on floral illustration because the later Middle Ages include Books of Hours, still-life and vanitas paintings, botanical prints, and books of instruction of each and every kind, from planting a garden to making flowers the usage of colored papers or wax.

Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi groups the works into chapters on such topics as florilegia, women artists, tulipomania, Dutch and Flemish painting, and exotic flowers from distant lands, providing an introduction to every chapter that gives the contextual background vital for a real understanding and appreciation of floral illustration past and present. The sheer beauty in addition to bizarre skills encountered, for instance, in manuscript florilegia by Jacob Marrel and Maria Sibylla Merian, in hand-colored books by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and G.B. Ferrari, and in flower studies painted by John Constable, Margaret Mee, and others, are testament to the high status accorded floral illustration over the centuries.

This handsome, richly illustrated volume will attract all those with an interest in rare books and the history of art in addition to horticulturalists, botanists, and garden historians.

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