BASILIUS BESLER - FRASINELLA - 1640

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    Subject: Antique engraving from the first half of the 17th century. Botany. - Basilius Besler.

    Publication: Nuremberg, Hortus Eystettensis, 1640.

    Technique: Intaglio engraving hand colored with watercolor at the time. 

    Size: 55 x 45 cm.

    Conservation: Good condition. 

    Author Biography: Basilius Besler (1561-1629) was born in the German city of Nuremberg in 1561, where he studied botany, medicine and pharmacy. He was curator of the botanical garden of the prince bishop of Eichstätt, Bavaria, who was an enthusiastic amateur botanist, deriving great pleasure from his garden, which was the only European botanical garden outside Italy.

    Work Hortus Eystettensis: Bishop von Gemmingen commissioned Besler to write Hortus Eystettensis to immortalize the plant content of his botanical garden in an illustrated book. Besler began work on this new project with the help of important painters and engravers such as Sebastian Schedel (1570-1628) and Wolfgang Kilian (1550-1612), among others. Ludwig Jungermann (1572-1653) will probably be in charge of writing most of the descriptions in Latin, anticipating Linnaeus' binominal system, since each species was identified with the first two or three words of its Latin description. After fifteen years of intense work

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    Product type
    Print
    Author
    BESLER, Basilius
    Year
    1640
    Place
    Núnberg
    Condition
    Good condition
    Artistic technique
    Engraving

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    		 1640 1640 1640 1613
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    €900.00
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    €900.00
    Description

    FRASINELLA

    FLOS ARMERIUS ALBUS

    AMARANTUS CRISTATUS / AMARANTUS SPICATUS
    Product type
    		 Print Print Print Print
    Author
    		 BESLER, Basilius BESLER, Basilius BESLER, Basilius BESLER, Basilius
    Year
    		 1640 1640 1640 1613
    Place
    		 Núnberg Núnberg Núnberg Núnberg
    Condition
    		 Good condition Good condition Good condition Good condition
    Artistic technique
    		 Engraving Engraving Engraving Engraving