Spring Tulips In Black And White
by Kay Novy
Title
Spring Tulips In Black And White
Artist
Kay Novy
Medium
Photograph - Photography Black And White
Description
Originally cultivated in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), tulips were imported into Holland in the sixteenth century. When Carolus Clusius wrote the first major book on tulips in 1592, they became so popular that his garden was raided and bulbs stolen on a regular basis. As the Dutch Golden Age grew, so did this curvaceous and colorful flower. They became popular in paintings and festivals. In the mid-seventeenth century, tulips were so popular that they created the first economic bubble, known as "Tulip Mania" (tulipomania). As people bought up bulbs they became so expensive that they were used as money until the market in them crashed.
The original tulips themselves were, of course, species that grew wild and have done so for millennia. As with many other plants, tulip species names are made and unmade by taxonomists based upon their observations and the state of botany at any given time. However, present classification schemes recognize some 75 tulip species. These are distributed throughout western Asia and immediately surrounding areas.
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