- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Taschen GmbH; Taschen's 25th anniversary ed edition (25 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3822838101
- ISBN-13: 978-3822838105
- Product Dimensions: 33.2 x 27.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #15 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Plants > Flowers > Roses
- #62 in Books > Science & Nature > Biological Sciences > Botany & Plant Sciences > Flowers
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The refined and revered tradition of botanical illustration, produced under aristocratic patronage, stretches back to the Renaissance. It emerged out of the desire to catalogue nature in all its wild splendour, and it was a process that demanded the most precise and skilful of artists. French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute is often viewed as one of the last and the best of these painters and engravers. Commissioned by among others, Napoleon's Josephine, Redoute studied with the finest flower painters in France and Amsterdam, and developed a breathtaking skill at translating his observations of nature onto paper. His illustrations of the botanical alphabets of D. M. Guillamain were a landmark in flower painting for their accuracy and beauty. He was also an innovator in the techniques of printing, introducing "stipple-engraving" to France, always striving for greater exactitude in his art. This is a glorious and completely faithful reproduction of his most celebrated work "Les Roses", which was published in three volumes between 1817 and 1824. In "Les Roses", he turns his attention to that most romantic and evocative of subjects, and this handsome volume preserves every detail of Redoute's masterful representation of nature's gifts.
About the Author
Petra-Andrea Hinz (born 1956) studied biology at the ETH in Zurich, specialising in botany. She presented her doctorate on Systematic Botany to the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques in Geneva. She has been involved in a project on the history of botany at the Institute of the History of the Natural Sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich since 1992. Barbara Schulz trained as a graphic artist and has since been working as a restorer. She has an excellent knowledge of graphic techniques, and has devoted particular attention to the work of Redoute.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
THIS BOOK REALLY SURPASSED MY EXPECTATIONS.THE FULL PAGE PLATES OF SO MANY BEAUTIFUL ROSES ARE MAGNIFICENT,AND WILL HELP ME GREATLY IN LEARNING TO DRAW AND PAINT FLOWERS.I FULLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE WHO LOVES ROSES/FLOWERS.THANKYOU.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
no matter what type of rose lover you are these are stunning to look at, I am an artist and my favourite flowers are roses, this book helps you to understand the shape and detail of all types of roses.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
STUNNING!
25 Feb 2008
Format:Hardcover
THIS BOOK IS STUNNING!! WHEN I RECEIVED THE FIRST BOOK I IMMEDIATELY ORDERED A 2ND ONE. THE PICTURES ARE BEAUTIFUL FOR FRAMING. I LOVE REDOUTE'S WORK. THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL IS EXQUISITE. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO EVERYONE WHO LOVES ROSES, ESPECIALLY BOTANICAL PRINTS. I FRAMED SOME OF THE PRINTS AND THEY LOOK REALLY EXPENSIVE. ALL WHO SEE THEM THINK I SPENT A FORTUNE.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Redoute's Masterpiece
3 Nov 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is absolutely beautiful! It includes history and botanical prints of roses. Redoute is a master and his prints are classics. I actually bought 2 books (by mistake) but decided to keep them both. I'll frame some of the prints(the pages are good quality and suitable for framing)and keep the other book intact to enjoy on the coffee table. The prints are large and I plan to frame them 11x16 inches.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Worth the (very modest) investment
25 Jun 2010
Format:Hardcover
This is a wonderful book and worth the price by all means. Redouté is usually considered one of the best botanical artists of history, along with the Bauer brothers working out of England, but I would tend to rate Redouté higher. Several people have said that he sacrificed botanical accuracy for mass appeal (including the author of this edition's introduction), but I disagree again. These prints are highly realistic and sensual, but all of the scientific details are there. There are no floral dissections, but I don't think that is always necessary. Modern floras frequently lack them. An important point: the medium of botanical art is generally watercolor, but these are reproductions of hand-engraved prints after watercolor originals. The original edition off of which these plates are based is largely in excellent condition, so the reproductions look like new.
Redouté and his collaborators were also highly inventive: these prints use stippling (dotted shading), a rather rare technique at the time. Rather than apply dots by hand, the engravers used a toothed wheel, allowing for microscopic accuracy rather than the rather course effect achieved by modern artists who use stippling. The shading is very subtle and closely resembles watercolor. Over this a colorist would add watercolors by hand to give body to what would otherwise be a pale two-color or three-color drawing.
The roses are beautiful and very diverse, including several Oriental roses (a novelty at the time) and 3 plates of proliferating roses (flowers which sprout stems and further flowers of their own). Additionally, the introductory material includes several ultra-violet photographs demonstrating where the stippled engraving technique ends and the watercolor additions begin - such is the integration of the work that it takes careful study to see this! Finally, a word of note about the subjects... the hybrid tea rose essentially did not exist yet, so roses looked quite different in those days. You will find quite a few novel roses here you might not have expected, along with plenty of old-fashioned cabbage roses and moss roses.
This book is definitely worth your while, and I would also recommend TASCHEN's "Garden of Eden," which included a couple of plates from this book along with hundreds of other publications and manuscripts. Now if only Taschen would publish Redouté's "Liliacées," I would die happy.
Redouté and his collaborators were also highly inventive: these prints use stippling (dotted shading), a rather rare technique at the time. Rather than apply dots by hand, the engravers used a toothed wheel, allowing for microscopic accuracy rather than the rather course effect achieved by modern artists who use stippling. The shading is very subtle and closely resembles watercolor. Over this a colorist would add watercolors by hand to give body to what would otherwise be a pale two-color or three-color drawing.
The roses are beautiful and very diverse, including several Oriental roses (a novelty at the time) and 3 plates of proliferating roses (flowers which sprout stems and further flowers of their own). Additionally, the introductory material includes several ultra-violet photographs demonstrating where the stippled engraving technique ends and the watercolor additions begin - such is the integration of the work that it takes careful study to see this! Finally, a word of note about the subjects... the hybrid tea rose essentially did not exist yet, so roses looked quite different in those days. You will find quite a few novel roses here you might not have expected, along with plenty of old-fashioned cabbage roses and moss roses.
This book is definitely worth your while, and I would also recommend TASCHEN's "Garden of Eden," which included a couple of plates from this book along with hundreds of other publications and manuscripts. Now if only Taschen would publish Redouté's "Liliacées," I would die happy.
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