When Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1593\/95\u20131612) undertook a radical renovation of the Willibaldsburg Castle, overlooking the Altm\u00fchl River in Eichst\u00e4tt, Bavaria, he also created a surrounding palatial pleasure garden of magnificence and grandeur. To preserve the garden for future generations \u2013 and provide an \u2018evergreen\u2019 record of its contents, compiling plants from all four seasons and presenting them in that order \u2013 he commissioned the garden\u2019s director, Nuremberg apothecary Basilius Besler (1561\u20131629), and a team of engravers to immortalize its treasures in print.<\/p>\n
The resulting Hortus Eystettensis, published in Nuremberg in 1613 and containing 367 hand-colored plates and detailed descriptions, was a work of meticulous execution and spectacular diversity, and remarkably expensive for its time. As the garden contained a variety of plants imported from exotic locales, the three volumes exhibited a remarkable range, covering a total of 90 families and 340 genera. Due to the decorative, stylized execution of these illustrations, which began to see plants in aesthetic, rather than merely practical or medicinal terms, the book is seen as a milestone in the art of botanical illustration. While published before a time of standardized classification systems, it was nonetheless later described by Carl Linnaeus as an \u201cincomparable work\u201d.<\/p>\n
Besler\u2019s catalog long outlived the gardens, which were destroyed in 1634 by invading Swedish troops during the Thirty Years\u2019 War. However, a lengthy redevelopment project at the historic site has culminated in the opening of the modern Bastion Garden in 1998, containing many of the plants shown in the Hortus Eystettensis.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Autori: Klaus Walter Littger, Basilius Besler, Werner Dressendorfer<\/p>\n
Limba: Engleza
\nData publicarii: 2023
\nEditura: Taschen
\nHardcover
\nNr. pagini: 1096
\nISBN: 9783836594332
\nDimensiuni: 24cm x 30cm x 14.2cm; greutate 6545g<\/p>\n
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