Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584-1655) - Eiusdem floris et vaginae magnitudo, Originale
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Giovanni Battista Ferrari, Eiusdem floris et vaginae magnitudo, Originale; an unsigned aquaforte plate from De Florum Cultura Libri IV (1633), plate 131, 230 × 160 mm, Italy, Baroque, 17th century, in good condition.
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"NARCISO INDIANO LILIACEO"
It is not a true narcissus, but an ancient synonymy name attributed to plants of the Amaryllidaceae family originating in South Africa, commonly known as Belladonna Lily
1633/38
Figure of the plant and its sheath
A slender pennant with the Latin title winds around the two stems at the bottom.
Hand-painted refined coloration
Title: "Eiusdem floris et vaginae magnitudo”
Plate 131 from the work DE FLORVM CVLTVRA LIBRI IV, published in Rome in 1633/38
Location: Calcography; FONDO BARBERINI; specimen 174A
In excellent conservation condition for paper, printed on laid paper with a fragment of watermark, margins irregular but good beyond the copper plate.
A botanist at heart, Ferrari is chiefly remembered for the treatise Flora, seu De florum cultura lib. 4, first published in Latin in 1633 and reprinted in Italian translation in 1638.
The work, dedicated to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, (the Barberini Collection preserves the Fund) is very beautiful iconographically, having contributed illustrations and engravings by some of the most important artists of the Baroque period: drawings by Guido Reni, Pietro da Cortona, Giovanni Lanfranco and Andrea Sacchi, and engravings by Johann Friedrich Greuter, Anna Maria Vaiana and Claude Mellan.
The aim of the work is to disseminate techniques for cultivating flowers and ornamental plants, especially exotic ones highly sought after in the seventeenth century (the so‑called “pilgrim flowers”).
In the first book an introduction to gardening, providing an overview of flower cultivation and gardening; the second and third books deal with pilgrim flowers, while the fourth book is mainly devoted to floral decorations
Engraving by Anna Maria Vaiana, 1604-1655
Active in Rome in the first half of the seventeenth century, she engraved most of the plates for Giovan Battista Ferrari’s De florum cultura.
"NARCISO INDIANO LILIACEO"
It is not a true narcissus, but an ancient synonymy name attributed to plants of the Amaryllidaceae family originating in South Africa, commonly known as Belladonna Lily
1633/38
Figure of the plant and its sheath
A slender pennant with the Latin title winds around the two stems at the bottom.
Hand-painted refined coloration
Title: "Eiusdem floris et vaginae magnitudo”
Plate 131 from the work DE FLORVM CVLTVRA LIBRI IV, published in Rome in 1633/38
Location: Calcography; FONDO BARBERINI; specimen 174A
In excellent conservation condition for paper, printed on laid paper with a fragment of watermark, margins irregular but good beyond the copper plate.
A botanist at heart, Ferrari is chiefly remembered for the treatise Flora, seu De florum cultura lib. 4, first published in Latin in 1633 and reprinted in Italian translation in 1638.
The work, dedicated to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, (the Barberini Collection preserves the Fund) is very beautiful iconographically, having contributed illustrations and engravings by some of the most important artists of the Baroque period: drawings by Guido Reni, Pietro da Cortona, Giovanni Lanfranco and Andrea Sacchi, and engravings by Johann Friedrich Greuter, Anna Maria Vaiana and Claude Mellan.
The aim of the work is to disseminate techniques for cultivating flowers and ornamental plants, especially exotic ones highly sought after in the seventeenth century (the so‑called “pilgrim flowers”).
In the first book an introduction to gardening, providing an overview of flower cultivation and gardening; the second and third books deal with pilgrim flowers, while the fourth book is mainly devoted to floral decorations
Engraving by Anna Maria Vaiana, 1604-1655
Active in Rome in the first half of the seventeenth century, she engraved most of the plates for Giovan Battista Ferrari’s De florum cultura.
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Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584-1655)
Title of artwork
Eiusdem floris et vaginae magnitudo, Originale
Technique
Engraving, Etching
Signature
Not signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
1633
Condition
Good condition
Height
230 mm
Width
160 mm
Depiction/theme
Plants and flowers
Style
Baroque
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Period
17th century
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