Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840),他是玛丽王后的御用宫庭起草士，其后得宠于约瑟芬皇后(Joséphine Bonaparte)。这位植物学家与花艺师将花推向至臻之境，常于险峻荒乱的境况下，完美无瑕绘出花瓣。如此纤细艺术，他已达炉火纯青之境。

　　Redouté的作品就成了TASCHEN 一本精致新书的题材。此重印本将这位艺术家其中144幅作品结集。这些精确而尽见心思的花朵、树干与果实的绘图**于1827年至1833年出版。Redouté的艺术作品既悦目又满载信息，将世上一些最纤细的植物样本记录下来，同时唤起巴黎温室与庭园远逝的壮丽，不论你是爱花爱大自然还是爱园艺也好，也不容错过。

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759 –1840) was forever in high demand. Official court draftsman to Queen Marie-Antoinette (who purportedly summoned him at midnight to paint a cactus), and later a favorite of Joséphine Bonaparte, the artist brought flowers to the highest of places, and offset the chaotic upheaval of the French Revolution with the delicacy of perfectly drawn petals.

This reprint brings together 144 examples of Redouté’s flower, branch, and fruit drawings. Originally published between 1827 and 1833, these precise yet tender illustrations are as delightful as they are informative, recording some of the most delicate plant specimens in the world and evoking the bygone magnificence of Parisian greenhouses and gardens.

The artist

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), was born in Saint-Hubert, now part of Belgium. An official court artist at Versailles, he gained international recognition for his watercolors of flowers and plants, publishing over 2,000 plates depicting over 1,800 dspecies. Redouté perfected the technique of stipple engraving, using tiny dots of color rather than lines, facilitating subtle color variations in his work.

Werner Dressend?rfer is a pharmaceutical historian, academic librarian, and former honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His particular spheres of interest are the history of the Early Modern herbal, the cultural history of useful and medicinal plants, and plant symbolism in art. He has published extensively on pharmaceutical and botanical history and is the author of TASCHEN’s The Garden at Eichst?tt, The Lilies, Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal of 1543, Pomona Britannica, The Temple of Flora, and The Vegetable Garden.

H. Walter Lack is a Professor at the Free University of Berlin and former Director of the Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. A leading expert in the history of botany, his research focuses on the global transfer of useful and ornamental plants from a cultural historical perspective. He is the author of TASCHEN’s Garden of Eden and The Book of Palms.