Flower Drawings [Paperback]

A chronological selection of beautifully illustrated flower drawings.A chronological selection of flower drawings, showing illuminated manuscripts, contributions from the Renaissance, the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and the present day. The illustrations bring out the stunning detail and colour characteristic of the form.A chronological selection of flower drawings, showing illuminated manuscripts, contributions from the Renaissance, the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and the present day. The illustrations bring out the stunning detail and colour characteristic of the form.This Handbook illustrates a selection of drawings of flowers from the collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The book is arranged chronologically and ranges from the fifteenth century to the present day. Beginning with illustrations from the borders and backgrounds of illuminated manuscripts, the selection traces the form through attempts at accurate delineation of form during the Renaissance to the more scientific approach of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It concludes with several contemporary examples of flower drawings to show that the tradition continues. The illustrations bring out the stunning detail and colour characteristic of the art-form.Introduction; 1. French school, c.1415: Des proprietez des choses; 2. Netherlands school, fifteenth century: Horae: Book of Hours; 3. Netherlands school, 1526: Horae: Book of Hours; 4. Antoine du Pinet: Narcissus pseudo-narcissus L.; 5. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger: Tulip; 6. Jacob Marrell: An open wicker basket of flowers in a window embrasure, with a frog and insects; 7. Nicholas Robert: Three broken tulips; 8. Nicholas Robert: Six diverse flowers with an insect and a tropical butterfly; 9. Nicholas Robert: Rose and lavender with birds and a butterfly; 10. French school, seventeenth century: Pasque flower and cowslip with a butterfly; 11. French school, seventeenth century: Bluebell and l#µ