PIERRE JOSEPH REDOUTE

Edición bilingüe Español / Italiano.La refinada tradición de las ilustraciones botánicas (bajo el mecenazgo aristocrático) comenzó en el Renacimiento. Surgió de la necesidad de captar la naturaleza en todo su esplendor y requería de cualificados maestros.Pierre-Joseph Redouté, pintor y grabador francés, está considerado como uno de los mejores represenates de este arte. Trabajó para Josefina y estuvo estudiando las flores con los mejores maestros de Francia y Amsterdam.Este libro reproduce su obra maestra Las rosas, publicada en tres volúmenes entre 1817 y 1824.

Edición trilingüe Inglés / Francés / AlemánThe book of books on the queen of flowersThe refined and revered tradition of botanical illustration, produced under aristocratic patronage, stretches back to the Renaissance. It emerged out of the desire to catalogue nature in all its wild splendour, and it was a process that demanded the most precise and skilful of artists.French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté is often viewed as one of the last and the best of these painters and engravers. Commissioned by among others, Napoleon's Josephine, Redouté studied with the finest flower painters in France and Amsterdam, and developed a breathtaking skill at translating his observations of nature onto paper. His illustrations of the botanical alphabets of D.-M. Guillamain were a landmark in flower painting for their accuracy and beauty. He was also an innovator in the techniques of printing, introducing 'stipple-engraving' to France, always striving for greater exactitude in his art.This is a glorious and completely faithful reproduction of his most celebrated work 'Les Roses', which was published in three volumes between 1817 and 1824. In 'Les Roses' he turns his attention to that most romantic and evocative of subjects, and this handsome volume preserves every detail of Redouté's masterful representation of nature's gifts.

English, French, GermanFlower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (17591840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including Napoleons wife Josephine, he was dubbed the Raphael of flowers,o and is regarded to this day as a master of botanical illustration.This collection brings our best-selling XL-sized edition to a smaller, more convenient format, still gathering some of the finest color engravings from Redoutes illustrations of Roses, Lilies, and Choix des plus belles fleurs et quelques branches des plus beaux fruits (Selection of the Most Beautiful Blooms and Branches with the Finest Fruits). Offering a vibrant overview of Redoutes admixture of accuracy and beauty, it is also a privileged glimpse into the magnificent gardens and greenhouses of a bygone Paris.The authorH. Walter Lack is a Professor at the Free University of Berlin and former Director of the Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. A leading expert in the history of botany, his research focuses on the global transfer of useful and ornamental plants from a cultural historical perspective. He is the author of TASCHENs Garden of Eden and The Book of Palms.