The Nassau-Idstein Florilegium by Laure Beaumont-Maillet

Walter Johann

ISBN 10: 281440010X / ISBN 13: 9782814400108

Edité par Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF), Bibliotheque de l Image, Paris, 2010

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sehr guter Zustand/ very good condition, 112 S., Grossformat, farbige Abb., paperback, kart. Englische Ausgabe. Johann Graf von Nassau-Idstein (1603-1676) war ein weltgewandter Sammler und Kunst liebender Mäzen. Nahe seinem Idsteiner Anwesen schuf er einen Garten voll seltener Pflanzen, stattete diesen mit muschelverzierten Grotten aus und legte Springbrunnen sowie Beete mit Blumen, Obst und Gemüse an. Um eben jenen Garten für die Ewigkeit zu erhalten, beauftragte er den Straßburger Maler Johann Walter (1604-1676), sein blühendes Paradies im Bild festzuhalten. So entstand das vorliegende Blumenbuch. Heute befindet sich das Florilegium in der Bibliothèque nationale de France und umfasst 54 Gouachen auf Pergament. Gramm 600.

N° de réf. du vendeur 83196

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Nassau-Idstein Florilegium by Laure Beaumont-Maillet
• Éditeur: Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF), Bibliotheque de l Image, Paris
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 281440010X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9782814400108
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Poids: 600 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Kunst

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Synopsis

In the middle of the seventeenth century Johann von Nassau returned to his estate and castle at Idstein, which had been devastated by the Thirty Years War. A sophisticated collector, he acquired paintings, stuffed birds and objects of every kind for his cabinet of curiosities. He created a garden full of rare plant species, grottoes decorated with shells, fountains, and flower-beds in the shape of vegetables and fruit. In the desire to immortalize his garden, Johann von Nassau engaged Johann Walter (1604-1677), a painter from Strasbourg, to record it. This was the origin of the Florilegium, a work of great artistic quality. Now kept in the department of Prints and Photography of the BNF, it comprises 54 gouaches on vellum, including a portrait of the prince in his cabinet of curiosities, a portrait of the painter, and views of the castle and garden, following by 30 plates depicting flowers and 12 depicting fruits, all remarkable originality. The botanic compositions, in particuliar those of fruit, are embellished with birds, shells or insects. The surprising quality of each of these small pictures is of such startling liveliness that one can hardly describe them as still lifes. Paperback, illustrated cover (Composition de fruits avec giraumon, 1662). (24 x 32 cm.)

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Laure Beaumont-Maillet, conservateur général des bibliothèques, is an archvist and palaeographer. From 1983 to 2007, she was director of the department of Prints and Photography of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.