Flora, ouero, Cultura di fiori
Title:
Flora, ouero, Cultura di fiori
Description:
Jesuit botanist Giovanni Battista Ferrari’s book on cultivating and planning gardens is one of the loveliest books to be produced in seventeenth-century Rome. It is filled with inventive engravings of complex garden designs along with stunningly drawn plates of individual flowers and plants; the plant names are heralded in beribboned banners. Many well-known artists collaborated to illustrate the production, including the Florentine painter and printmaker Anna Maria Vaiani, who designed and engraved a number of the plates. Vaiani, commissioned to paint a fresco in one of the Vatican chapels, was a member of the circles of Galileo and the noted collector and patron of the arts Cassiano dal Pozzo.
Creator:
Ferrari, Giovanni Battista
Publisher:
Pier. ‘Ant. Facciotti
Date:
1638
Coverage:
Rome
Display Date:
1638
Hover Text:
Anna Maria Vaiani — artist and engraver
Published Item:
P
Item Index:
13
Item Sort:
1600s
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