Florilegium studies


  • Photographer
    Joseph McGlennon
  • Prize
    1st Place / Nature/Other_N
  • Date of Photograph
    jan-August 2016

Like the earlier work, these works take inspiration from Joseph Banks’ botanical drawings and present glimpses to a rare and exotic paradise; and in the case of Florilegium #9, a world inhabited by a bird which as been extinct since the 17th Century, the dodo. A Latin term reconfigured in the Middle Ages; Florilegium (to gather flowers), had its early language roots in the gathering together of scholarly church writings, into the one tome. In the 16th & 17th centuries, Botanical Gardens emerged across Europe, privately hoarding exotic world flowers and animals, signalling the rise and rise of the illustrated colour plate book. The growing desire to chorale and record the worlds flora & fauna, alongside the growing confidence in science, all fused to produce a notion of the Florilegium as a luxurious record of the rare; of important beauties to be viewed in the one vista.

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