Difference: BotanicalArt (r18 vs. r17)

Botanical Art

Before cameras, there was botanical art. Early herbals were noted for their woodcuts. Later etchings and lithographs created more detailed prints. At their best botanical representations often were better for identification than photos. The artist had the control to make sure key characters were displayed. We may look at some of the early woodcuts and wonder how people identified plants based upon the stylized representations but when botanical art reached its prime plants were depicted extremely accurately. This was no small task since artists were often presented with flowers that were about to wilt or worse had been pressed between sheets of paper. But for the most part the images they created would make it easy to identify the plant.

Classic Botanical Art

Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Gallery
1787 to present
Iris alberti
Redoute's Les Liliaceae
Gallery
1805-1816
Iris susiana
Gartenflora
Gallery
1872-1880
Iris Iberica
Gallery of Plates In Dykes
1914
Iris sibirica
Gallery of Plates In Addisonia
1924
Iris carolina
Gallery of Art from The Garden
1924
Iris Leitlinii

Primitive Botanical Art

Early Botanical Art had limited tools such as the woodcuts of early herbals,...(under construction)
Gallery of Plates In Gerarde's Herbal
1597
Iris biflora
  Gallery of Plates In Reichenbach's Icones
1837-1838
Iris arenaria
 

Contemporary Botanical Art

Todays Artists are invited to display their work in a gallery below .
Jean Witt Gallery awaiting images
2015
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Vacant Gallery awaiting images
2015
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Vacant Gallery awaiting images
2015
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-- BobPries - 2014-11-26

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