Sentence examples for florilegium from inspiring English sources

The chief protagonists of Laird's book – John Evelyn, the Duchess of Beaufort and her extraordinary florilegium; the artist Mark Catesby, who produced such arresting images of the plants of the New World; Mrs Delaney – will be well known to anyone with a passing interest in garden history.

Moreover, he composed a Florilegium ("Anthology") of some 600 texts from the Greek Church Fathers in favour of the orthodox tenet of Dyotheletism (positing both human and divine wills in Christ).

In their florilegium -- or encyclopedic book -- they have meticulously illustrated all 57 varieties of plants as well as instances of the man-made debris they found.

We must say "perhaps", because the Philokalia, a florilegium of his writings, contains a short dialogue in which the redundancy of matter is established by Socratic interrogation (Philokalia 24).

Bachfest A first outing for the latest addition to Bath's portfolio of music festivals, a sibling to the autumn Mozartfest, featuring the Academy of Ancient Music, Florilegium and the Retrospect Ensemble.

Founded by Florilegium director Ashley Solomon, who auditioned local singers in the changing room of an Amazonian swimming pool, the Arakaendars have developed in little over five years into one of the most remarkable choirs in the world.

While taking lessons with David Takeno and Michaela Comberti, she co-founded the Palladian and Florilegium ensembles, and made around six recordings a year – Bach, Handel, "weird early stuff".

Banks Florilegiumm, a collection of engravings of plants compiled by Banks and based on drawings by Swedish botanist Daniel Solander during Cook's 1768 71 voyage, was not published in full until 1989.

Neither 'commonplace book', nor 'sketchbook', nor 'florilegium' will do.

An exhibit of botanical art, presented by the garden's Florilegium Society, features drawings and paintings by 43 different artists.

Just don't look for mindless botanical bliss at these thought-provoking exhibitions: At WAVE HILL, the public garden and cultural center in the Bronx, is a project by Bob Braine and Leslie Reed called "BRONX LOT FLORILEGIUM" based on their "ethno-botanical-geographical" study of a 15-square-foot plot in an overgrown vacant lot near the Bronx River.