A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2023

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Cristina Brito

Dr. Ana Cristina Roque

Dr. Cecilia Veracini

Dr. Nina Vieira

Dr. Joana Gaspar de Freitas

More information at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/uses_biodiversity

La Flora de Bogotá: The Art and Science of Botany ca. 1800

Friday, December 2, 2022 at 6:00 pm

Public Lecture with Daniela Bleichmar

Registraton here: https://doaks-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_35JJZfKETSyLbgN-PrD59g

Between 1783 and 1806, the Royal Botanical Expedition to the Kingdom of New Granada created thousands of stunning botanical paintings of South American flora. The expedition’s director, José Celestino Mutis, intended to publish one of the most lavish botanical works ever produced, a multi-volume Flora de Bogotá that would provide a complete botanical survey of the region. He assembled a painting workshop with dozens of artists, who worked for two decades to create unique images that combined art and science and proposed a new way to depict nature. This collection shows the connections between art, science, economics, and politics in botanical work around 1800.

The programme is now available:

Programme and Book of Abstracts – III International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments: More Than Just Biodiversity (wordpress.com)