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Red Cloud
Portrait of Charles II of Savoy known as the Good
Lamentation over the dead Christ
Madonna and Child
The children of Charles I of England
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
The archangel Gabriel and Tobias
Bas-relief with a garland of flowers and fruit
Madonna and Child
The three archangels and Tobias
the return of the prodigal son
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Madonna and Child
Trinity
Stigmata of St. Francis
The vanity of human life
Portrait of an Old Man
Annunciation
Venus
Bust of Minerva
Bust - manly portrait
Psykter di Euthymides
Plate decorated with ribbons and nets
Canteen bowl
Ingot Blade Kit
Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea
Colombine ointment
Signpost
Fibulae with disc bracket
Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy
Madona with Child
Story of Aeneas and Dido
The family of Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia
Holy family with San Giovannino
The Sacra di San Michele
The thirst suffered by the first crusaders under Jerusalem
Table tureen
Rotisserie
Coffee cup
Kanjar (pug)
Japanese armor of the Do-Maru type
Parade plaque of Henry II of France
Corsaletto
Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
Naked young man next to an old oriental dress
Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album

Flower album

Anonymous

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The album is a collection of fifty-two drawings, probably set up at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The tables are characterized by considerable heterogeneity in terms of scientific accuracy and quality of the stroke and are attributable to different designers: generally each table shows the image of a single plant and there are rare repetitions of the same subject; the designs tend to reproduce the original size of the species and are therefore often large. The tables can be collected in three groups related to different execution times. The first group, older, brings together small drawings, precise but of modest pictorial quality, which represent whole plants, such as cyclamen or two small ferns. The drawings are made on a cardboard cut out from time to time of different sizes, depending on the subject, and then glued to the album sheets. The second group represents many bulbous plants, particularly appreciated by collectors of the time, such as wild narcissus or in cultivated varieties, asphodels, lily of the valley, martagon lily, St. John's lily and some species of orchids. In these tables the species are almost always represented on blue paper, with great attention to the shape of the leaves and flowers but also of the underground organs, with a remarkable scientific precision for the period. The third group contains drawings of large size and of considerable artistic and scientific value which mainly depict exotic plants, such as sunflowers, Fritillaria imperialis or Canna indica or native species of ornamental or medicinal interest - the castor bean for example -, which were repeatedly represented in Painted herbs of the time as in that of the Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. The work was most likely present in the Grand Gallery of Carlo Emanuele I, based on the Torrini Inventory (1659).
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Title: Flower album

Author: Anonymous

Date: XVII

Technique: Manuscript

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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