Album Vilmorin: The Vegetable Garden
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (501 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3836535998 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-03 |
| Language | : | English, French, German |
DESCRIPTION:
Fabulous Dianne Caswell What else can I say but FABULOUS!!!!!!!! This is a beautiful publication for anyone who loves their garden or simply loves beautiful Botanical Drawings/Paintings. What a please it is to have this on my coffee table in my sunroom.. fantastic I love this book. The art has a nostalgic and elegant feel. The pages could easily be framed and hung on the wall.. Bound upside down from inner pages The inside pages are upside down from the cover. So when you open to view you have to turn it the other way to look at the pages of the book.
He has published extensively on pharmaceutical and botanical history. 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. About the Author Werner Dressendörfer is a pharmaceutical historian and academic librarian. . He taught at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he was an honorary professor
By the mid-19th century, the firm had become the most important seed company in the world—active in production, trade, and scientific advances, thanks largely to Louis de Vilmorin’s crucial research into selection and heredity in the 1850s. An art book for food lovers: Mouthwatering illustrations of 19th century French garden vegetables The French company Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie arose in the 18th century from the collaboration between Philippe Victoire de Vilmorin—a grain and plant merchant and connoisseur—and his father-in-law, Pierre Andrieux, Botanist to the King. At the height of its international renown, the company published its splendidAlbum Vilmorin. The Vilmorins employed some 15 painters to create this work of agro-botanic iconography; most had tra
Werner Dressendörfer is a pharmaceutical historian and academic librarian. . He has published extensively on pharmaceutical and botanical history. 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 taught at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he was an honorary professor