I'm afraid I know nothing of the theory of it, but I keep his
Hortus Siccus in order.
Online plant suppliers such as Crocus - www.crocus.co.uk - and
Hortus Loci - www.hortusloci.co.uk - give you great descriptions, images and cultivation advice.
Ensemble
Hortus Musicus 18:00 @ Tallinn, Kadriorg Palace
Hortus's portrays a vast tropical garden in the centre of which stands an ornamental summerhouse with two caryatids bearing an entablature whose tympanum is inscribed with the title of the work.
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Shaw is by no means the first artist to have cultivated a
hortus conclusus in which their work has taken root and flourished.
He can demonstrate how Marvell's 'Nymph Complaining' transforms Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido at the same time as it sets up an interplay between Ovid's Heroides, the Niobe myth, and the tradition of the Marian
hortus conclusus.
Back on a horticultural tip, the
Hortus Botanicus - one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world - been a sanctuary from the city for 300 years, and has 4,000 plant species in its gardens and greenhouses.
Vicente, however, focused on a
hortus conclusus rather than on the sweeping, open space of the shore.
Both men have worked at the
Hortus Botanicus of Amsterdam, also known as the Plantage
Hortus, a botanical garden still in existence today.
Known for his work in Prague and Vienna with medicinal herbs Clusius went to the Netherlands to become head botanist of the new botanical garden or '
hortus' at the University of Leiden.