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Everlasting Flowers between the Pages
The Making of Seventeenth-Century Florilegia
Series: - Emergence of Natural History, Volume: 9
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florilegium is a picture book filled with many species and varieties of flowers that were widely desired for seventeenth-century European gardens. While many aspects of
florilegia seem simple and unimportant from our modern perspective, they grow in complexity and significance when placed into their historical contexts. This colourfully illustrated volume offers new insights into how
florilegia functioned as material objects that highlighted and showcased many forms of knowledge, thereby revealing the expertise which the gardeners, compilers, and image-makers must have possessed in order to cultivate the once-living specimens and immortalise the flowers on paper and parchment.
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen, Ph.D. (2023), is a historian of art, science, and knowledge currently working at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She has published several articles which reflect her interests in image making and the visual and material culture of natural history.
Academic institutes, museums, libraries, students, practitioners, historians of knowledge, art historians, historians of science, historians of natural history, garden historians, biologists, and natural scientists.