Rosane Quintella
Rosane Quintella | |
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| Born | February 25, 1959 São Paulo, Brazil |
| Died | September 11, 2020 (aged 61) |
| Occupation | Botanical artist |
| Known for | Botanical illustrations |
Rosane Quintella (25 February 1959 – 11 September 2020) was a Brazilian botanical artist and teacher.
Life and work
[edit]Quintella was born 25 February 1959 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.[1]
She studied at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná at the Curitiba campus of the University of the State of Paraná in Brazil, graduating in the plastic arts in 1982.[2] Later, in 1992, she took a bachelor's degree in biology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná and then a specialist course in illustration in 2002.[3] In 2005 she was the 17th Margaret Mee Fellow in Botanical Illustration at Kew Gardens. She then became a director of the Paraná Botanical Illustration Center (Centro de Ilustração Botânica do Paraná) in Curitiba and taught botanical illustration until 2019.[1][3]
She worked in watercolours as well as pen and ink for technical illustrations. Her work is within the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew including the Shirley Sherwood Gallery.[3]
She died 11 September 2020.[1][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Tyrrell, Katherine (13 September 2020). "Rosane Quintella (1959 - 2020)". Botanical Art and Artists. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Rosane Quintella". Centro de Ilustração Botânica do Paraná (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ a b c "In Memoriam". American Society of Botanical Artists. Archived from the original on 23 February 2022.
- ^ "Lista de falecimentos em Curitiba - 11/9/2020" [List of deaths - 9/11/2020]. Gazeta do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 12 September 2020. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2023.