Natural History Illustration

博物図譜

Dictionary entry

  1. Botanical Illustration 16th century– / Style

    The tradition of plant portraiture holding scientific precision and decorative beauty together. Redouté's roses in stipple engraving and hand color established elegance-through-accuracy as a style.

  2. Natural History Plate 18th–19th century / Style

    The naturalist's plates showing unknown life as both taxonomy and wonder. The symmetrical compositions of Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur became the junction where science plates flowed into Art Nouveau's language of form.

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