Cultivated Power
Subtitle: Flowers, Culture, And Politics In The Reign Of Louis XIV (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780812238266
Subjects: Horticulture; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; Gardens, French; Europe - France; History; Architecture; Modern - 17th Century; History: World; Landscape; 17th century; 18th century; France; Gardens
First sentence: In 1668 the newly formed French Academie royale des sciences commissioned the noted engraver Abraham Bosse, along with flower painter Nicolas Robert and Louis Claude de Chastillon, to produce engravings of botanical specimens in the Jardin du roi to accompany the academy's Descriptions de quelques plantes nouvelles and Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des plantes.