Plant Life - Explore the Botanical World

Description

Végétal: Exploring the Botanical World brings together the most beautiful botanical illustrations for the first time, highlighting plants and flowers and the role they have played in our history and culture. This book presents more than 300 remarkable works of art from all civilisations, eras and techniques: cave paintings, medieval manuscripts, photographs and images taken with a scanning electron microscope. Carefully compiled by international specialists, this selection of botanical images is organised to highlight contrasts and similarities. The magnificent reproductions are accompanied by texts that are as accessible as they are precise. A glossary and an introduction to plant taxonomy also complete this study. This selection of images presents the emblematic works of numerous artists, scientists, botanical illustrators and photographers, including Araki, Jean-Jacques Audubon, Stéphanie Berni, Ferdinand Bauer, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Adam Fuss, Ernst Haeckel, Nick Knight, Yayoi Kusama, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maria Sibylla Merian, Marc Quinn, Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Thomas Ruff.