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 Open Culture - The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time: “Pierre-Joseph Redoutémade his name by painting flowers, an achievement impossible without a meticulousness that exceeds all bounds of normality. 

He published his three-volume collection Les Roses and his eight-volume collection Les Liliacées between 1802 and 1824, and a glance at their pages today vividly suggests the painstaking nature of both his process for not just rendering those flowers, but also for seeing them properly in the first place. 

While Redouté’s works have long been available free online, the digital forms in which they’ve been available haven’t quite done them justice — certainly not to the mind of designer and data artist Nicholas Rougeux…” 

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