Marianne North - The Kew Collection Kew RBGPevná vazba
Marianne North - The Kew Collection Kew RBGPevná vazba To wander through the Marianne North gallery at Kew Gardens is to visit the world. The paintings also hint at the story of their remarkable…
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Marianne North - The Kew Collection Kew RBGPevná vazba
To wander through the Marianne North gallery at Kew Gardens is to visit the world. The paintings also hint at the story of their remarkable creator, Marianne North. The gallery's dense display of botanical paintings are arranged geographically, allowing viewers to wander from pole to pole by examining the diverse plants that cover the globe.
Rather, her travels took her to Ceylon, Japan, and Brazil, and she documented the plants she encountered along the way. Born in England in 1830, North refused to be limited to the domestic spaces to which Victorian women were so often confined. Her detailed renderings of plants that few were able to see in person provided critical information for the growing science of botany, and many now bear her name as a tribute to her intrepid discoveries.
What's more, the paintings she made are a colorful record of the beauty that covers the earth in its
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