Rembert Dodoens
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Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father of botany. The standard author abbreviation Dodoens is used
Engraving by Theodor de Bry, in Bibliotheca chalcographica (1669)
Title page of Part 6 of the Cruijdeboeck 1554
Title page of the Crvydt-Boeck (1618 ed.)
Pieter van der Borcht or Peter van der Borcht was a Flemish Renaissance painter, draughtsman and etcher. He is regarded as one of the most gifted botanical painters of the 16th century. Pieter van der
Rembert Dodoens
…Fuchs. Of the drawings in the Cruydeboeck, 515 were borrowed from Leonhart Fuchs' New-Kreuterbüchlein (1543) while 200 new drawings were drawn by Pieter van der Borcht the Elder and the woodblocks cut by Arnold Nicolai. Rather than the traditional method of arranging the plants in alphabetical order, the Cruydeboeck divided the…
Peasant Fair, after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559
The Tooth Puller
Drawing of a Flower, from the Libri picturati
The Nursery, c. 1585, an example of a singerie