Fragrance of rose and flavor of mint : flowers and herbs in ancient Roman gardens [videorecording] / [lecture by] Marina Heilmeyer ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Fragrance of rose and flavor of mint : flowers and herbs in ancient Roman gardens [videorecording] / [lecture by] Marina Heilmeyer ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Marina Heilmeyer, author and noted expert on plant and garden history and frequent collaborator with the Botanischer Garten and Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany, will address the flowers, herbs, and vegetables grown in Roman gardens. She will examine their use for nutritional, medicinal, aromatic, cosmetic, and religious purposes, and will illustrate her talk with evidence from Roman mythology, literary and medical texts, cookbooks, and actual remains recovered in excavations.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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J. Paul Getty Museum. Villa Program Coordination

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The Getty Villa, located just off the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, California, operates as a museum and educational center dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The Getty Villa was designed to house J. Paul Getty's art collection when it outgrew his Ranch House, which had served as a private museum since 1954. After considering various options for expanding the Ranch House, Getty decided in the fall of 1968 to build a ne...

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