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Secret of the Winter Garden

By: The Renaissance Secrets team (The Open University)

American art historian Claudia Swan travels from Krakow to Leiden on a mission to discover the secret of 1,800 priceless paintings hidden deep inside a Polish Library.

01 Sep
2005
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Used with permission Apples

Used with permission Drawing of flowers

Claudia's quest to understand Renaissance art leads into a labyrinth of nature, medicine and voyages of exploration, encountering a web of ideas that fundamentally changed Europe's view of science and the world.

Follow her journey with us to unpick the mysteries of the Winter Garden.

Used with permission Drawing of tulips

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Look at the web-site of the Research School Biodiversity, Amsterdam for a profile of the Leiden Botanic Garden.

Some of Carolus Clusius's books are catalogued in the Patten Collection of Herbals and Early Gardening Books.

Further reading
The Clusius Botanical Watercolours
Claudia Swan, Abrams 1998

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The Renaissance Secrets team (The Open University)

The Renaissance Secrets team created a series of programmes for The Open University exploring the ideas and surprises of from the re-birth of human inventiveness.

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