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Author(s)	Vredeman de Vries, Jan
Title	Hortorum viridariorvmque elegantes et multiplices formae- Belles et diverses figures de jardins et de vergers...
Imprint	Antwerp, J. Galle, [c. 1636]
Localisation	Paris, Ensba, Les 948
Subject	Gardens

The last edition of the book Hortorum viridariorvmque…formæ was published by Joan Galle (1600-1676), with the same series which had been added to the second edition that his father Théodore published around 1600. In the last two editions the engravings are numbered continuously from one to thirty-four. In the Ensba copy, the last engraving of Pieter IV van der Borcht is missing; it was replaced by illustration n° 9 belonging to the second part of the Perspective by Vredeman de Vries, published in 1605 in Leyden by Henricus Hondius.

Piet Lombaerde (Hoger Instituut voor Architectuurwetenschappen Henry van de Velde,
Association Université Anvers) – 2009

Critical bibliography

E. A. De Jong, "Gärten auf Papier. Hans Vredeman de Vries und sein Hortorum Viridariorvmque elegantes & multiplicis formae von 1583", U. Härting (ed.), Gärten und Höfe der Rubenszeit im Spiegel der Malerfamilie Brueghel und der Künstler um Peter Paul Rubens, Munich, Hirmer, 2000, pp. 37-47. P. Fuhring (ed.), De wereld is een tuin. Hans Vredeman de Vries en de tuinkunst van de Renaissance, Ghent/Amsterdam, Ludion, 2002. P. Fuhring & G. Luijten (ed.), Hollstein’s Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, Vredeman de Vries 1572-1630, 48, 2, Rotterdam, Sound & Vision Interactive, 1997, pp. 122-136. P. Lombaerde (ed.), Hans Vredeman de Vries and the ‘Artes Mechanicae’ revisited, Turnhout, Brepols, 2005. U. M. Mehrtens, "Johan Vredeman de Vries and the Hortorum Formae", M. Mosser & G. Teyssot (ed.), The History of Garden Design. The Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day, London, Thames & Hudson, 1991, pp. 103-105. H. Mielke, Hans Vredeman de Vries. Verzeichnis der Stichwerke und Beschreibung seines Stiles sowie Beiträge zum Werk Gerard Groennings, doctoral thesis, Berlin, 1967. A. Schoy, "Les jardins flamands à la fin du XVI siècle au point de vue de l’art", Journal des Beaux-Arts et de Littérature, 15, February 28, 1873, 4, pp. 29-31, March 15, 1873, 5, pp. 37-39. B. Uppenkamp, "Die Scenographien und Gartenentwürfe des Hans Vredeman de Vries und seine Tätigkeit in Wolfenbüttel im Lichte neuer Quellen", L. Koneckny, B. Bukovinska et I. Muschka (ed.), Rudolf II, Prague and the World. Papers from the International Conference, Prague September 2-4, Prague, Artefactum, 1998, pp. 111-119.

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