Everlasting Flowers between the Pages

Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen, Ph.D. (2023), is a historian of art, science, and knowledge currently working at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She has published several articles which reflect her interests in image making and the visual and material culture of natural history.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsNotesCore ExamplesList of FiguresIntroduction1 Picture Books of Colourful Flowers from the Seventeenth Century2 Towards a History of Knowledge3 Making Seventeenth-Century Florilegia4 Overview of Core Examples and This Volume1 Rare and Curious Flowers in the Seventeenth Century1 Introduction2 Balancing a Diversity and Variety of Flowers3 The Rare and the Curious4 Conclusion2 Growing Flowers into Rarities and Curiosities1 Introduction2 How to Plant According to Seventeenth-Century Florilegia3 Cultivating Rare and Curious Flowers through Care and Patience4 Preparing Earth for a Good Planting Ground5 A Time to Plant and a Time to Enjoy the Blooms6 Conclusion3 Picking Flowers for Every Season through Images and Text1 Introduction2 Copying Flowers3 Excerpting Flowers, Extracting Knowledge4 Putting Flowers in Seasonal Order5 Conclusion4 From Describing Flower Colours to Describing Colouring Flowers1 Introduction2 Modifying and Reprinting Seventeenth-Century Florilegia3 Leafing through a Flower Book4 Describing Flowers and Their Colours5 Describing How-to Colour Flowers6 Conclusion5 Keeping Flowers between the Pages1 Introduction2 Preserving Flowers on Paper and Parchment3 Losing Rareness and Curiousness4 Capturing Flowers in the Moment(s)5 Pressing Flowers for Rare and Curious Features6 Keeping the Collection as a Whole7 Conclusion6 Making Colourful Images of Flowers in Life-Size1 Introduction2 Picturing Rare and Curious Flowers3 Drawing Flowers Life-Size4 Adding Colours to Flowers5 ConclusionConclusion1 A Customisable Genre Embracing Different Forms of Knowledge2 A Time to MakeAppendix 1: Making Colours SeriesAppendix 2: Planting Pigments ColLABAppendix 3: Hortus floridus Iesse, Or, The Imperfect Book of Flowers: A Twenty-First-Century FlorilegiumBibliographyIndex of Names, Works, and Flowers