Eduardo Barba

Eduardo Barba was born in Madrid and lives and works in Spain. He is a professional gardener, landscape designer, gardening tutor and botanical researcher of plants in works of art. He is as passionate about the plant kingdom as he is about the visual arts, which has led him to identify and catalogue all the plants that appear in thousands of paintings in the collection of the Prado Museum and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid. He has undertaken similar research projects for the...See more

Eduardo Barba was born in Madrid and lives and works in Spain. He is a professional gardener, landscape designer, gardening tutor and botanical researcher of plants in works of art. He is as passionate about the plant kingdom as he is about the visual arts, which has led him to identify and catalogue all the plants that appear in thousands of paintings in the collection of the Prado Museum and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid. He has undertaken similar research projects for the Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao and other museums internationally, as well as for art historians, curators, conservators and private collectors. Barba has given talks internationally and written for art catalogues for several museums including the Prado Museum. His collaboration with the Prado also resulted in the publication of his book The Garden at El Prado (Espasa, 2020) - a botanical walk around works by the great masters, now in its 8th edition. More recently, he published a book about urban flora called A Flower in the Asphalt (Tres Hermanas, 2021), now in its 4th edition. His third book, Paradise in Brushstrokes: Gardens in Works of Art, will be published by Espasa in March 2023. Barba has designed gardens in Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, the US and Australia. He writes a weekly gardening column in Spanish national newspaper El País and has a regular gardening slot on Spanish national radio station Cadena SER. See less