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Kim Frisbie
Special to the Daily News
Botanical subjects have long inspired artists, with illustrations of plants dating back to 1465 BC in ancient Egypt.
Specific plants used for medicinal purposes were compiled into herbals as early as 512 AD. John Gerard’s 1,484-page illustrated
Herbal, or Generall Historie of Plantes, was first published in 1597 and was standard medicinal plant reference for more than a century.
In 1613, Basilius Besler, a noted apothecary and botanist in Nuremburg, Germany, published the incomparable
Florilegium: Hortus Eystettensis, compiling 373 full-color plates of more than 1,000 accurate illustrations of flowers into possibly the best record of plants grown in European gardens in the 16th century. Still regarded as one of the most important botanical books ever written, this was the first time flowering plants were portrayed as objects of beauty, changing the emphasis from medicinal herbs toward more aesthetic artistry. ....

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