Minneapolis Institute of Art

Tulipa gesneriana (Didier's Tulip)

Austria (Vienna)LinkedCulture matchlcp-917dd543f754

Date

1815

Medium

Watercolor over graphite

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Object ID

19003

Botanical illustrators working in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries devoted themselves to the medicinal qualities of plants and sought to render plant structure and function as precisely as they could. Later, European explorers brought specimens back from exotic locales, and artists carefully reproduced them for an audience fascinated by new discoveries. By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, artists had shifted their emphasis from scientific illustration to the innate beauty of the plant or flower. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is fortunate to possess an impressive collection of more than 2, 000 botanical prints and drawings. Austria

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