Oranges, mandarins, cedars, lemons & bergamots..: Artistic engravings of Ferrari, Aldrovrandi, Volckhamer...

Luca Stefano Cristini

Oranges, mandarins, cedars, lemons & bergamots..: Artistic engravings of Ferrari, Aldrovrandi, Volckhamer...
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Soldiershop
Published
24 May 2016
Pages
82
ISBN
9788893270830

Oranges, mandarins, cedars, lemons & bergamots..: Artistic engravings of Ferrari, Aldrovrandi, Volckhamer…

Luca Stefano Cristini

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Curious and detailed collection of images of botanical subjects belonging to the citrus family, made by artists, scientists, biologists and anthropologists. Artists of the past engaged in the realization of real museums of natural history. One of them, among the best known, the bolognese Aldrovandi called his work theater or microcosm of nature, he placed at the disposal of 18.000 scholars diversity of natural things and 7.000 dried plants in fifteen volumes . 17 volumes containing thousands of beautiful watercolors of animals, plants, minerals and monsters were part of the collection. These responded to the precise Aldrovandi and colleagues’s awareness of the images’ central role, as part of the research, that in their opinion were indeed very useful for the circulation of knowledge, offering a faithful portrait of the natural things …

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