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Looking to relax and make some art today? Try using a #PortraitsOfPlants coloring sheet as a canvas for experimenting with watercolors. The worksheet is based on this piece, signed and dated “Clara Maria Pope 1818,” which features #dahlias. Download it at https://t.co/kRTBBJSGbu.

The botanical art of Camille de Chantereine faded into obscurity after her death. However, her work has been rediscovered in collections like ours. See this painting of hers, "Roses, lilacs, and lilies," in the Margaret Mee: #PortraitsOfPlants exhibit: https://t.co/GWGHqnq4f0.

#Philodendron by Margaret Mee (on loan from the #ShirleySherwood collection) depicts a species from the #Amazon. Mee painted the plant in its native environment, defying conventions of botanical art and spotlighting endangered ecosystems. Learn more: https://t.co/9HqpVCEeTG.

ONLINE EXHIBIT: The #Botany of Empire in the Long #18thCentury
How did Europeans get pineapple 🍍for centerpieces at important dinner parties?
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We've got a special 📚TOP 3 FREE READS 📚today, featuring a peek into our #RareBooks.
Discover a major woman #BotanicalArtist, plus hothouses and tech #EarlyModern Europeans used to cultivate #pineapples! 1/4

Chosen by Ashley Buchanan, Postdoctoral Fellow in #PlantHumanities.

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Our #OpenAccess books explore the influence of the Crusades on #Byzantium and the #Muslim world; #Byzantine #coins from 1081—1204; and the complete typika in translation.

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During her third journey through the #Amazon, botanical artist #MargaretMee traveled north to the Uaupés River to paint Rapateaceae, "an extraordinary swamp plant.” Learn more about Mee’s expeditions in our online exhibit Margaret Mee: #PortraitsOfPlants: https://t.co/QDLZ1AygLx.

How did the site of a gallows, dump, & quarry become a picturesque public park in #Paris? Read a Q&A w/ @cudenvercap professor Ann Komara: https://t.co/rBIKdcEfxZ.

📷 📖: "amazing" frontispiece & "enormous banana plants." @HarvardLibrary 99003386229, 99001173612.
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"500 years ago, #Tenochtitlan, the magnificent #Aztec capital, was devastated by an #epidemic outbreak caused by European contact. I'm preparing an online exhibit for this fall about #Nahua recollections of the tragedy." —Felipe Ledesma-Núñez
📖: Codex Telleriano-Remensis.
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"No longer confined to the Company School genre" of colonial art, "#BotanicalIllustration can serve the urgent 21st-century purpose of #conservation," writes Bangalore-based artist/@NatGeo Young Explorer Nirupa Rao.

Read her essay for #PortraitsOfPlants: https://t.co/eJecoigUc1.