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Rich owners of private gardens commissioned large-format florilegiums to immortalize their personal taste and power of acquisition, and the drawn pages burned with the urgency and excitement of explaining every plant’s form, color, and beauty.
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Two centuries of German poetry lived in this old German flower garden, from the crude florilegiums of Baroque lyric to Eichendorff, who in its after-life, while looking back on so much by-gone glory, became its truest expression, as formulated by a new spirit, since poetry is the first and final need of the human soul, for which reality does not suffice.
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There was a considerable overlap between florilegiums, with their wealth of botanical illustration and exotic collections, and embroiderers’ source books. Crispin van de Passe’s A Garden of Flowers or Hortus Floridus (1614) contained engravings and descriptions of all types of garden flowers, and proved as invaluable to the embroiderer as to the gardener.
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