Although Salvador Dali and Basilius Besler were artists in two very different times, there is a similarity and continuity between the two paintings, Hasty Plum and Hyacinths. Basilius Besler created engravings of plants he encountered. He is considered one of the world's first botanists. The Hyacinths engraving depicts different types of hyacinths, with a larger one as the focal point. This larger flower is in full bloom. He made many engravings in the 1600s for the Prince Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany, which had the first complete botanical garden dedicated to flowering plants. Besler painted flowers in all four seasons, as in his etching “Hyacinths.” Giacinti was engraved with a copper plate in 1613. Besler himself did not execute the copper engravings; rather, they were made from his very detailed drawings. From all his drawings and later from the engravings his famous plant atlas "Hortus Eystettensis" was born, published in 1613 by Basilius Besler and Ludwig Jungermann. This botanical atlas contains 1086 plant illustrations from 367 copper engravings, most of which are illustrated in full size. (Besler,2014) We know that Salvador Dali is the eccentric surrealist painter of paintings such as The Temptation of Saint Anthony or The Persistence of Memory. Dali's painting, Hasty Plum, is quite different from anything Dali had painted in the past. Hasty Plum was part of a group of commissioned pieces based on 19th century botanical drawings. It was made in the technique of watercolor and gouache in 1969. Recently, due to the rarity of watercolors, they were sold for 1 million dollars. (Livius, 2014) The theme that connects these two works of art and spans the century...... middle of paper ......ortus Eystettensis" was the most modern plant book of its time. Botanical, C Plumier honored Besler posthumously by naming a climbing bush after him, Beseleria. What happened to the originals Jean Schneider, the person? who commissioned the pieces in 1969, hid them in a bank vault and there they remained for decades. They were exhibited in an art gallery in Cologne in 2000-2001, but other than that, they have never been seen. The fourteen watercolors were sold at the Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art auction in London on 18 June 2013 not in a whole lot of 14 but as singles. The total price paid for all of them was $1,200,000.00 . (Livy, 2014)