Eduardo Barba | Garden Painters. Plants in Spanish Painting

Horticulture is science and art on a par, an interdisciplinary cultural manifestation in itself. What happens when art opens the doors to scientific knowledge about historical botany? With his renowned know-how and ability to disseminate information, Eduardo Barba will reveal the information on floral species and pre-contemporary gardens found in Spanish painting, also in relation to works of other origins preserved in Spain. We are talking about a veritable display of natural species that often goes unnoticed. What this researcher offers us is to learn to look at the paintings with different eyes, as temporary portals through which to travel to a fascinating world of plants.

HoJAS (Horticulture and Gardening in Andalusia from the VIII to the XVIII centuries)

Under the acronym HoJAS, FLORA and the University of Cordoba propose a series of conferences to disseminate knowledge and research on gardens, the species that were part of them and the significance of a millennium of flowers and orchards, between the beginning of the Andalusian period and the dawn of modern times.

We will delve into the historical reconstruction of these urban and rural spaces, their species and cultivars, uses, techniques and cultural conceptions that we are able to recover by four means: archaeopalynology, the preserved material heritage, the projection in art and the reflection in the very rich, although practically unexplored, handwritten documentation kept in the historical archives. Four perspectives to understand the same phenomenon, those of four specialists such as Enriqueta Martín-Consuegra, Francisco M. Espejo, Eduardo Barba and Antonio J. Díaz.

Historical botany, heritage conservation, pictorial analysis and documentary research are coordinated to weave the precious tapestry of a part of our past that is worth disseminating and valuing: our horticultural heritage.

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