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The team have now selected the 100 plants, 20 from each country. The plants have been selected according to several criteria:

That the plant was growing in Europe during the 16th and /or 17th century
That the plant (or a close relative) has been identified on the tapestries of Philip II
That the plant (or a close relative) has been illustrated in the Libri picturati
That the plant (or a close relative) has been illustrated in another artistic medium eg a herbal of the period , as archetectural embellishments, as tile paintings.
That the plant (or a close relative) has been identified in Genoese art masterpieces.
That the plant has a cultural, utilitarian or medicinal association.

The Italian team have now produced an agreed database, and work is commencing on the input of all the botanical data by each country team on their selected plants. It is envisaged that this will be complete by February 2003. Accuracy checks and text editing for the English version have been carried out at Kew.

Research into the nature and background of all the ‘Art Masterpieces’ is being carried out in parallel and will be input into the database at a later stage.

Images are being sourced for all the 100 species represented. These will provide one illustrative representation for each of the plants.

 

 

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Last updated: 03.14.2003.