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Anemone Tenuiflolia - Basilius Besler - Felix Rose 1995 - Framed Print - 14"H x 11"W

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Anemone Tenuiflolia - Basilius Besler - Felix Rose 1995 - Framed Print - 14"H x 11"W

Basilius Besler was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist, best known for his monumental Hortus Eystettensis. He was curator of the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt. The bishop was an enthusiastic botanist who derived great pleasure from his garden, which rivaled Hortus Botanicus Leiden among early European botanical gardens outside Italy.

The bishop commissioned Besler to compile a codex of the plants growing in his garden, a task which Besler took sixteen years to complete, the bishop dying shortly before the work was published.

The gardens were sacked by invading Swedish troops under Herzog Bernhard von Weimar in 1633-4

Anemone is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Greek anemōnē means "daughter of the wind", from ánemos the wind god "wind" + feminine patronymic suffix -ōnē.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid tells that the plant was created by the goddess Venus when she sprinkled nectar on the blood of her dead lover Adonis.


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