FLORA GEORGICA
Plantarum Iberiae centuria
Short description:
Flora Georgica is a major project combining the finest traditions of applied art, science and publishing. It brings together a botanical album prepared by the publishing house and an artistically painted porcelain service produced by the Imperial (Lomonosov) Porcelain Factory. The visual basis for the project was depictions of 100 plants that grow on the territory of Georgia in the Caucasus featured in the scholarly publications of outstanding 18th-century botanists.
Artists:
Alexander Fedorov
Alexander Kabanin
Yekaterina Samoilova
Natalia Kostunova
Galina Yutkina
Ksenia Shalayeva
Margarita Kriuchkova
Varvara Drobina
Alexander Fedorov
Works in the techniques of lithography and etching. Awarded a personal grant of President of the Chuvash Republic Nikolai Fedorov and grants from the Russian Ministry of Culture. Member of the Saint Petersburg Artists’ Union. Made an Honoured Artist of the Chuvash Republic.
Alexander Kabanin
St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Fine Arts
Yekaterina Samoilova
St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Fine Arts
Natalia Kostunova
St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Fine Arts
Galina Yutkina
St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Fine Arts
Ksenia Shalayeva
St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Fine Arts
Margarita Kriuchkova
St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Fine Arts
Varvara Drobina
St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Fine Arts
Edition:
10 copies numbered and signed by the publisher
Additional information
Details of the creation of this masterpiece
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Year of publication:2022
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Number of pages:two volumes of 220 pages each
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Dimensions:book — 480 × 340 mm, case — 500 × 350 × 180 mm
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Paper:Fabriano (Italy), 250 g/m², handmade
Language:
Latin
Many botanists have studied the flora of Georgia, a land located on the southern side of the Greater Caucasus mountain range. They include some outstanding scholars who investigated the diversity and distribution patterns of plant communities.
Their large encyclopaedic works not only made a substantial contribution to scientific knowledge, but also served as a basis for one of the traditions of applied art — decorating porcelain with depictions of plants taken from botanical atlases.
Their large encyclopaedic works not only made a substantial contribution to scientific knowledge, but also served as a basis for one of the traditions of applied art — decorating porcelain with depictions of plants taken from botanical atlases.
The bibliophilic publication FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria prepared by the Rare Books from Saint Petersburg publishing house is a continuation of a splendid tradition from the Age of Enlightenment — the creation of botanical albums that are of not only scientific, but also artistic value.
The publication consists of two volumes containing depictions of 100 plants that grow in Georgia accompanied by descriptions of them in Latin. The album has been compiled using tabulated collections of plants assembled by the 18th-century scholars Johann Christian Buxbaum, Peter Simon Pallas and Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein that are kept in the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The publication consists of two volumes containing depictions of 100 plants that grow in Georgia accompanied by descriptions of them in Latin. The album has been compiled using tabulated collections of plants assembled by the 18th-century scholars Johann Christian Buxbaum, Peter Simon Pallas and Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein that are kept in the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The fantastically colourful illustrations in the book FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria became the basis for the painted decoration of a 100-setting dining service produced at Saint Petersburg’s Imperial Porcelain Factory (known for much of the 20th century as the Lomonosov Factory).
This splendid masterpiece of applied art, which has also been named Flora Georgica, is to become a highlight of the display in the Mukhranbatoni Palace located on the functioning wine estate and tourist mecca at Mukhrani, a suburb of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
This splendid masterpiece of applied art, which has also been named Flora Georgica, is to become a highlight of the display in the Mukhranbatoni Palace located on the functioning wine estate and tourist mecca at Mukhrani, a suburb of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
Work on the first copy of the book was completed in January 2022.
Those involved in work on the publication:
Scientific consultant to the project — Andrei Sytin
Layout and design of the cover — Yevgeny Grigoryev
Illustrations — Alexander Fyodorov, Alexander Kabanin, Yekaterina Samoilova, Natalia Kostunova, Galina Yutkina, Ksenia Shalayeva, Margarita Kriuchkova, Varvara Drobina
Printing of the etchings — Vasily Kleimyonov
Printing of the text — Ruslan Knyazev
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Proof-reader of the Latin text — Irina Narusevich
Project curator — Alexander Borodin
Those involved in work on the publication:
Scientific consultant to the project — Andrei Sytin
Layout and design of the cover — Yevgeny Grigoryev
Illustrations — Alexander Fyodorov, Alexander Kabanin, Yekaterina Samoilova, Natalia Kostunova, Galina Yutkina, Ksenia Shalayeva, Margarita Kriuchkova, Varvara Drobina
Printing of the etchings — Vasily Kleimyonov
Printing of the text — Ruslan Knyazev
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Proof-reader of the Latin text — Irina Narusevich
Project curator — Alexander Borodin
The publication contains the texts of scholarly descriptions of 100 Georgian plants in Latin printed on a 19th-century German-made Dingler hand press, using the Walbaum font, on Italian hand-laid Fabriano paper. The botanical album FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria was compiled from materials found in the following scholarly publications:
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BUXBAUM
Plantarum minus cognitarum: complectens plantas circa Byzantium et in Oriente observatas, 1728–40;
PETER SIMON PALLAS
Flora Rossica, 1784–1788 and Species Astragalorum, 1800–02;
FRIEDRICH AUGUST MARSСHALL VON BIEBERSTEIN
Centuria plantarum rariorum Rossiae meridionalis praesertim Tauriae et Caucasi iconibus descriptionibusque illustrata, 1810–43.
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BUXBAUM
Plantarum minus cognitarum: complectens plantas circa Byzantium et in Oriente observatas, 1728–40;
PETER SIMON PALLAS
Flora Rossica, 1784–1788 and Species Astragalorum, 1800–02;
FRIEDRICH AUGUST MARSСHALL VON BIEBERSTEIN
Centuria plantarum rariorum Rossiae meridionalis praesertim Tauriae et Caucasi iconibus descriptionibusque illustrata, 1810–43.
Georgia is situated in central and western Transcaucasia, where the boundaries of geographical zones meet. Contrasts in landscape and climatic conditions make the region’s flora exceptionally diverse.
Over many decades, plants were collected there not only by botanical scientists, but also by members of other professions: military surveyors, geologists, physicians, priest and mountaineers. Herbaria from Georgia can today be found in the world’s largest botanical repositories and serve the advancement of science.
Over many decades, plants were collected there not only by botanical scientists, but also by members of other professions: military surveyors, geologists, physicians, priest and mountaineers. Herbaria from Georgia can today be found in the world’s largest botanical repositories and serve the advancement of science.
Our publication FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria contains illustrations showing 100 Georgian plants produced in a manner traditional for botanical albums in the 18th and 19th centuries. The drawings of the plants were printing in the etching technique and hand-tinted with watercolours by a group of Saint Petersburg artists.
The resulting images, rich in halftones, with striking transitions of colour, are bound to impress all who see them. The visual sense of volume that watercolour can achieve invests the prints with a three-dimensional effect, awakening a desire to examine all the finest nuances of an illustration.
The resulting images, rich in halftones, with striking transitions of colour, are bound to impress all who see them. The visual sense of volume that watercolour can achieve invests the prints with a three-dimensional effect, awakening a desire to examine all the finest nuances of an illustration.
FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria consists of two volumes housed in a mahogany case. The covers are made from luxurious French white shagreen leather decorated with gold-tooling. The pages are gilt-edged.
The elegant, understated design of the binding symbolizes the book’s scientific and educational character — and only upon opening its pages will readers fully grasp that they are holding a masterpiece of pictorial art.
The elegant, understated design of the binding symbolizes the book’s scientific and educational character — and only upon opening its pages will readers fully grasp that they are holding a masterpiece of pictorial art.
Additional information
Details of the creation of this masterpiece
About this edition
About this edition:
-
Year of publication:2022
-
Number of pages:two volumes of 220 pages each
-
Dimensions:book — 480 × 340 mm, case — 500 × 350 × 180 mm
-
Paper:Fabriano (Italy), 250 g/m², handmade
Language:
Latin
Many botanists have studied the flora of Georgia, a land located on the southern side of the Greater Caucasus mountain range. They include some outstanding scholars who investigated the diversity and distribution patterns of plant communities.
Their large encyclopaedic works not only made a substantial contribution to scientific knowledge, but also served as a basis for one of the traditions of applied art — decorating porcelain with depictions of plants taken from botanical atlases.
Their large encyclopaedic works not only made a substantial contribution to scientific knowledge, but also served as a basis for one of the traditions of applied art — decorating porcelain with depictions of plants taken from botanical atlases.
The bibliophilic publication FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria prepared by the Rare Books from Saint Petersburg publishing house is a continuation of a splendid tradition from the Age of Enlightenment — the creation of botanical albums that are of not only scientific, but also artistic value.
The publication consists of two volumes containing depictions of 100 plants that grow in Georgia accompanied by descriptions of them in Latin. The album has been compiled using tabulated collections of plants assembled by the 18th-century scholars Johann Christian Buxbaum, Peter Simon Pallas and Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein that are kept in the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The publication consists of two volumes containing depictions of 100 plants that grow in Georgia accompanied by descriptions of them in Latin. The album has been compiled using tabulated collections of plants assembled by the 18th-century scholars Johann Christian Buxbaum, Peter Simon Pallas and Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein that are kept in the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The fantastically colourful illustrations in the book FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria became the basis for the painted decoration of a 100-setting dining service produced at Saint Petersburg’s Imperial Porcelain Factory (known for much of the 20th century as the Lomonosov Factory).
This splendid masterpiece of applied art, which has also been named Flora Georgica, is to become a highlight of the display in the Mukhranbatoni Palace located on the functioning wine estate and tourist mecca at Mukhrani, a suburb of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
This splendid masterpiece of applied art, which has also been named Flora Georgica, is to become a highlight of the display in the Mukhranbatoni Palace located on the functioning wine estate and tourist mecca at Mukhrani, a suburb of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
Work on the first copy of the book was completed in January 2022.
Those involved in work on the publication:
Scientific consultant to the project — Andrei Sytin
Layout and design of the cover — Yevgeny Grigoryev
Illustrations — Alexander Fyodorov, Alexander Kabanin, Yekaterina Samoilova, Natalia Kostunova, Galina Yutkina, Ksenia Shalayeva, Margarita Kriuchkova, Varvara Drobina
Printing of the etchings — Vasily Kleimyonov
Printing of the text — Ruslan Knyazev
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Proof-reader of the Latin text — Irina Narusevich
Project curator — Alexander Borodin
Those involved in work on the publication:
Scientific consultant to the project — Andrei Sytin
Layout and design of the cover — Yevgeny Grigoryev
Illustrations — Alexander Fyodorov, Alexander Kabanin, Yekaterina Samoilova, Natalia Kostunova, Galina Yutkina, Ksenia Shalayeva, Margarita Kriuchkova, Varvara Drobina
Printing of the etchings — Vasily Kleimyonov
Printing of the text — Ruslan Knyazev
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Proof-reader of the Latin text — Irina Narusevich
Project curator — Alexander Borodin
Text
The publication contains the texts of scholarly descriptions of 100 Georgian plants in Latin printed on a 19th-century German-made Dingler hand press, using the Walbaum font, on Italian hand-laid Fabriano paper. The botanical album FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria was compiled from materials found in the following scholarly publications:
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BUXBAUM
Plantarum minus cognitarum: complectens plantas circa Byzantium et in Oriente observatas, 1728–40;
PETER SIMON PALLAS
Flora Rossica, 1784–1788 and Species Astragalorum, 1800–02;
FRIEDRICH AUGUST MARSСHALL VON BIEBERSTEIN
Centuria plantarum rariorum Rossiae meridionalis praesertim Tauriae et Caucasi iconibus descriptionibusque illustrata, 1810–43.
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BUXBAUM
Plantarum minus cognitarum: complectens plantas circa Byzantium et in Oriente observatas, 1728–40;
PETER SIMON PALLAS
Flora Rossica, 1784–1788 and Species Astragalorum, 1800–02;
FRIEDRICH AUGUST MARSСHALL VON BIEBERSTEIN
Centuria plantarum rariorum Rossiae meridionalis praesertim Tauriae et Caucasi iconibus descriptionibusque illustrata, 1810–43.
Illustrations
Georgia is situated in central and western Transcaucasia, where the boundaries of geographical zones meet. Contrasts in landscape and climatic conditions make the region’s flora exceptionally diverse.
Over many decades, plants were collected there not only by botanical scientists, but also by members of other professions: military surveyors, geologists, physicians, priest and mountaineers. Herbaria from Georgia can today be found in the world’s largest botanical repositories and serve the advancement of science.
Over many decades, plants were collected there not only by botanical scientists, but also by members of other professions: military surveyors, geologists, physicians, priest and mountaineers. Herbaria from Georgia can today be found in the world’s largest botanical repositories and serve the advancement of science.
Our publication FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria contains illustrations showing 100 Georgian plants produced in a manner traditional for botanical albums in the 18th and 19th centuries. The drawings of the plants were printing in the etching technique and hand-tinted with watercolours by a group of Saint Petersburg artists.
The resulting images, rich in halftones, with striking transitions of colour, are bound to impress all who see them. The visual sense of volume that watercolour can achieve invests the prints with a three-dimensional effect, awakening a desire to examine all the finest nuances of an illustration.
The resulting images, rich in halftones, with striking transitions of colour, are bound to impress all who see them. The visual sense of volume that watercolour can achieve invests the prints with a three-dimensional effect, awakening a desire to examine all the finest nuances of an illustration.
Binding
FLORA GEORGICA. Plantarum Iberiae centuria consists of two volumes housed in a mahogany case. The covers are made from luxurious French white shagreen leather decorated with gold-tooling. The pages are gilt-edged.
The elegant, understated design of the binding symbolizes the book’s scientific and educational character — and only upon opening its pages will readers fully grasp that they are holding a masterpiece of pictorial art.
The elegant, understated design of the binding symbolizes the book’s scientific and educational character — and only upon opening its pages will readers fully grasp that they are holding a masterpiece of pictorial art.
FLORA GEORGICA
Plantarum Iberiae centuria
The publication consists of two volumes containing depictions of 100 plants that grow in Georgia accompanied by descriptions of them in Latin