Gardens and Medicinal Virtues
Health and Beauty Between Past and Present
Title (it)
Giardini e virtù medicinali
Title (en)
Gardens and Medicinal Virtues
Subtitle (it)
Salute e bellezza tra passato e presente
Subtitle (en)
Health and Beauty Between Past and Present
Language
English
Language
Italian
Description (it)
Questo breve catalogo nasce per lasciare traccia della mostra realizzata a conclusione di un progetto Marie Skłodowska-Curie basato all’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
L’intento dell’esposizione è stato spiegare cosa si intendesse in passato per materia medica – piante, animali e minerali come fonte di sostanze medicinali – ma anche quante ricadute nel presente abbia la conoscenza, e quindi il rispetto e l’amore per la Natura, materia medica ancora attualissima.
L’esposizione, allestita nell’antica sede della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, la Sala Sansoviniana, ha coinvolto sia soggetti pubblici che privati, con una varietà di oggetti: erbari illustrati manoscritti e a stampa, antiche pubblicità di rimedi medicinali, farmacopee, suppellettili di spezieria, opere d’arte e persino due giochi da tavolo – uno ottocentesco e uno ideato ora, con l’utilizzo di antiche silografie naturalistiche.
Description (en)
This short catalogue was created to leave a trace of the exhibition realised at the end of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project based at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
The aim of the event was to explain what was meant in the past by materia medica – plants, animals and minerals as a source of medicinal substances – but also how many implications knowledge, and therefore respect and love for Nature, has in the present as well.
The exhibition, set up in the ancient venue of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, the Sala Sansoviniana, involved public and private subjects, with a variety of items: illustrated herbals, rare handbills for medicinal remedies, apothecary’s tools, works of art (etchings, engravings, mixed techniques) and even two board games, one from the nineteenth century and another from the present day, with naturalistic woodcuts.
Keywords (it)
Medicine • Herbs • Art • Games • Plants • Herbarium
DOI
10.30687/978-88-6969-719-7
ISBN
978-88-6969-720-3
ISBN
978-88-6969-719-7
Editor
Sabrina Minuzzi
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Università Ca' Foscari Venezia – Editoria > Edizioni Ca' Foscari
Dimensions
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book
Measuring Unit
cm
Width
24
Height
22
Pages or Volume
132 p
Series Title
Disclosing Collections
Volume
3
Publishing Address
Venezia
Publisher
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press
Publication Date
2023-07-26
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