L’architecte et le botaniste : spécimens particuliers et images raisonnées du monde végétal dans la Flore ornementale de Victor Ruprich-Robert
Abstrak
The publication of Flore ornementale (“Ornamental flora”), by the architect Victor Ruprich-Robert (1820-1887), issues a new system of plant representation dedicated to decorative arts and architecture. In this book, published between 1866 and 1876, images are definitely ambiguous, hesitating between an artistic or a scientific description of the vegetal model. This leads to a “synthesis, a kind of ornamental grammar”, which focuses on organized models while getting away from living model individuality. This process is initiated by a partnership made between Ruprich-Robert and Édouard André (1840-1911), a botanist who identified all plants reproduced in the book and made sure their look was accurate to nature. In these conversations between the botanist, who guarantees true vegetal anatomy, and the architect who is in research of an ornament-compatible flora, a dialogue is going on, illustrating the complexity of drawing living things at the end of the 19th century.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Aurélien Locatelli
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2021
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.4000/imagesrevues.9725
- Akses
- Open Access ✓