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Highgrove House and Gardens, the private residence of Their Majesties The King Charles III and The Queen Consort. ... Florilegium Watercolours. Collections. View All Collections Highgrove X Burberry. Highgrove Bouquet. Royal Gardens Fine Bone China. Sovereign Celebrations.
The short answer is that a florilegium is a book of flowers. ETYMOLOGY. The word “florilegium” (plural, "florilegia") comes from the New Latin word florilegium, which means "gathering flowers:: flor, flowers + leger e, to gather. The origin of this New Latin word was the Greek word anthologia, anthology, flower-gathering.
While the height of botanical art was from the 1740’s to the 1840’s and coincides with the great voyages of discovery, there is today what has been described as a modern renaissance of botanical painting. More than 70 artists, from the United Kingdom and abroad, participated in the Highgrove Florilegium creating 124 paintings in total.
Addison Publications publishes the two royal Florilegia, the Highgrove Florilegium and the Transylvania Florilegium. As well as these first editions, there are limited edition facsimile copies of masterpieces, including such treasures as the Lindisfarne Gospels, Domesday and the Hunting Book of Gaston Pheobus.
26 de abr. de 2008 · The first volume was published this week after six years work - in his 60th birthday year. The Highgrove Florilegium will comprise two volumes of 120 watercolours which record the plants in the gardens at Highgrove, which is the family home near Tetbury in Gloucestershire of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.
Florilegium. In medieval Latin, a florilegium (plural florilegia) was a compilation of excerpts or sententia from other writings and is an offshoot of the commonplacing tradition. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work.
