GIO ANTONIO BOTTIONE

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GIO ANTONIO BOTTIONE
Marigolds (Calendula) Watercolour on pencil lines signed lower left and located Turin 43 x 29 cm (on view) (Smudges) THE INCONOGRAPHIA TAURINENSIS The Iconographia Taurinensis is made up of 64 volumes which gather 7470 works drawn and watercoloured from varieties cultivated in the Botanical Garden of the University of Turin by four artists who succeeded each other as botanical painters without interruption for about 140 years. Bartolomeo Caccia, director of the Garden since 1729, commissioned the botanical painter Giovanni Battista Morandi (Milan, ?-1751) to produce four hundred watercolours. From 1752, under the direction of Vitaliano Donati (1717- 1762), Francesco Peyrolery (1710?-1783) became botanical painter until 1773. Giovanni Antonio Bottione, his nephew, who first worked alongside his uncle and then took over his post in 1783, remained officially in service until 1807. Angela Maria Bottione replaced her father in 1807 and worked until 1838 when she was replaced by Maddalena Lisa Mussino with whom the work was completed in 1868. This important work in the field of scientific illustration has no equivalent in the history of academic institutions except in rare and sporadic examples. In this collection, the undeniable artistic value of the individual tables is combined with the importance of the continuity of the documentation as evidence of more than a century of floristic research carried out in the Savoyard states and of the scientific development of the Garden. The collection thus consists of 64 volumes in folio (volumes LX to LXIV having a so-called "Atlantic" format) and 7500 botanical tables. This collection of watercolours is unique and is known as the Iconographia Taurinensis.
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