Botanical Illustration
ボタニカルアート / 16th century– / Style / Natural History Illustration
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.
A single plant on white / Dissection details added / The softness of stipple engraving / Transparent hand color
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Redouté / Curtis's Botanical Magazine / the contemporary botanical revival