Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. “Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum.” Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Garden. Ferrarii senensis and Societate Iesu de florum culture books 4.” lista/lista.html?tema=coltivazione%20dei%20fiori (20 February 2003). Giannotti, Roberta and Giorgi, Anna Maria. “Giovanni Battista Ferrari.” Missouri Botanical Garden. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. “1646: Giovanni Battista Ferrari.” Vanderbilt Medical Center. Few marginal tears professionally restored. of hesperis, feminine of hesperios, of the evening, western see Hesperian. verb)A garden, situated at the western end of the earth, in which golden apples grow. The nymphs who together with a dragon watch over a garden in which golden apples grow. Bloemaert introduced a nuanced approach to depicting the gradations of light and shadow, which influenced later engravers (Williamson).Ĭondition: Generally very good, with the usual overall light toning, wear, soft creases. Hes·per·i·des (h-spr-dz) pl.n.Greek Mythology 1. He also made some portraits and religious scenes after his own designs. In 1630, he traveled to Paris and then to Rome, where he was commissioned by wealthy patrons to make prints after paintings and sculptures by Italian masters in their collections. Originally trained as a painter by his father Abraham Bloemaert, he studied engraving with Crispijn de Passe and thereafter worked primarily as a printmaker. The entire set can be viewed in its entirety online (uncolored) with the text, at the Missouri Botanical Garden web site (see References below).Ĭornelis Bloemaert was from a Dutch family of artists (he is sometimes referred to as Cornelis the Younger, as his grandfather was also named Cornelis). The light airy look of the free-floating fruits makes this a popular set of prints compatible with a modern minimalist decor. In addition to the illustrations, Hesperides examined the taxonomy and classification of citrus fruits, including their origin, methods of cultivation, and medicinal uses. The engravings were done by the Dutch printmaker Cornelis Bloemaert and Johann Friedrich Greuter, and are notable for their meticulous detail and depiction of texture.The original series of 80 plates mainly depicted life-size fruits, whole and in section, as well as foliage and flowers, along with a few allegorical scenes. The project was spearheaded by antiquary and scientist Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657), who arranged funding and commissioned the preparatory drawings after seven notable artists of the era. The erudite Italian Jesuit scholar and professor Giovanni Battista Ferrari, a friend of Galileo, compiled it. [Hesperides, or Concerning the Cultivation and Uses of the Golden Appleġ1.5 x 8 inches, image (average approximate)īold studies of citrus fruits - lemons, oranges, limes, citrons, and antiquated citrus varieties - each tied with ribbons labeled with the name of the specimen.This work was not only the first taxonomic study of citrus fruit, but the first exhaustive study of a single family of plants or animals. 1582 – 1655) (editor)Ĭornelis Bloemaert (1603-1684) (engraver)įrom Hesperides Sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor The poetry and the arts illuminate each other and collaborate, in turn, in the reconstruction of the legends and their diachronic evolution, certainly a fruitful synergy.ĭata from two documentary series examined, text and images were interpreted separately and only then crossed to test the stratification of the literary tradition and iconography of the myth of Herakles in the garden of the Hesperides.Giovanni Battista Ferrari (c. If then there is an underlying substratum of cultural values, literary and epigraphic sources are useful to rebuild the backdrop on which images are inserted, which should not be used merely as a point of comparison. This code responds to specific rules in the construction of images with the selection criteria of attributes, gestures, objects, absence / presence of certain elements. The methodological approach applied to the study of the images is of the iconographic iconographic: the images are the vehicles of their own values and ideals of the world that produced and expressed, this ethical system is to transmit a coherent set of gestures, signs, symbols, which help to define specific behaviours and recognizable. The research that I have developed concerning the myth of Herakles and the Hesperides.ĭuring the study began, there was a large-scale reading of the phenomena which have affected the development and dissemination of this theme, with the possibility of reconstructing a scene rather than exhaustive and varied, not limited to one area or an area defined chronological specific production of old.
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