Werner Dressendörfer is a pharmaceutical historian, academic librarian, and former honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His particular spheres of interest are the history of the Early Modern herbal, the cultural history of useful and medicinal plants, and plant symbolism in art. He has published extensively on pharmaceutical and botanical history and is the author of TASCHEN’s The Garden at Eichstätt, The Lilies, Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal of 1543, Pomona Britannica, The Temple of Flora, and The Vegetable Garden. H. Walter Lack is a Professor at the Free University of Berlin and former Director of the Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. A leading expert in the history of botany, his research focuses on the global transfer of useful and ornamental plants from a cultural historical perspective. He is the author of TASCHEN’s Garden of Eden, The Book of Palms and Redouté. The Book of Flowers. Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), was born in Saint-Hubert, now part of Belgium. An official court artist at Versailles, he gained international recognition for his watercolors of flowers and plants, publishing over 2,000 plates depicting over 1,800 species. Redouté perfected the technique of stipple engraving, using tiny dots of color rather than lines, facilitating subtle color variations in his work.
“Meravigliosa magia dei libri, hai colpito ancora! Se volete dirlo
con i fiori, beh… stavolta ditelo con un libro. Non ve ne
pentirete.”
*Domenica – Il Sole 24 Ore*
“…not just a ‘coffee-table’ book but a useful tool for
scholars.”
*Historical Gardens Review*
“This is quite simply one of the most beautiful flower books that
we have ever seen.”
*McQueens Founder Kally Ellis*
“…If you can’t make it to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, this is a
brilliant alternative – minus the crowds.”
*The Lady*
“…a gorgeous compendium work from TASCHEN. Detailing the rise of
Redouté and flower painting in general, and the importance of
botanical records for both science and personal prestige, it is a
marvellous wander through the species that were flooding into Paris
at the time, plucked both from nearby French meadows and far-flung
hillsides in Greece, China and South America.”
*AnOther Magazine*
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