Ars Botanica

Contessa, A: 2023 Italy, softcover, 161 pages, illustrated. Ars Botanica is the exhibition catalogue by Andreina Contessa for Miramare Castle in Trieste, presenting the castle library’s 19th‑century botanical treasures through over a hundred works and more than 2,000 images that chart the art and science of botany, gardens, and plant illustration. It frames this “paper garden” in dialogue with the living park created by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg and Charlotte of Belgium, highlighting their travels, collecting, and aesthetic ideas that shaped the history of botanical illustration as a meeting point between scholarship and beauty. ISBN 9788836653225 In very good condition. Italian-English Language