{"product_id":"9781439793480","title":"Lily \u0026 Tomato (Mira Botanica) Midi Lined Journal by Paperblanks","description":"The art of still life painting is a celebrated part of Dutch culture, but before still life?emerged, there were illustrators who delicately illuminated handwritten manuscripts with images of flora and fauna to add emotional power to a written work.One of the most celebrated practitioners of this style was Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1601). In the 1590s the Emperor Rudolf II commissioned Hoefnagel to add?his illuminations to the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a mid-16th-century manuscript on the art of calligraphy by Georg Bocskay. The page reproduced here is known as Martagon Lily and Tomato.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299732631925,"sku":"9781439793480","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781439793480.jpg?v=1762786402","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781439793480","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}