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Article: Botanical art in Renaissance Italy. (Current and Coming).(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)(Brief Article)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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During the Italian Renaissance, under the enlightened patronage of several generations of the Medici family, an interest in science in general and botany in particular, led to the flourishing of a genre of painting we now call botanical art. The introduction into Italy of hundreds of previously unknown plant species brought from the far corners of the globe gave rise not only to the creation by the nobility of elaborate gardens comprised of useful and ornamental plants, but also to an interest in depicting flora in paintings, watercolors, textiles, manuscripts, mosaic panels, and furniture ornamented with panels of pietre dure (inlays of semiprecious stones). Each of these ...
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