The insect and the image : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500 - 1700
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Sprache: | English |
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Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.]
: Univ. of Minnesota Press
, 2011
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The insect and the image Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Janice Neri, The insect and the image. Visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500 - 1700] Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Neri, Janice, The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700] |
Verantwortlich: | Janice Neri |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction. Specimen logic
- Insects as objects and insects as subjects : establishing conventions for illustrating insects. Joris Hoefnagel's imaginary insects : inventing an artistic identity
- Cutting and pasting nature into print : Ulisse Aldrovandi's and Thomas Moffet's images of insects
- Suitable for framing : insects in early still life paintings
- New worlds and new selves. Between observation and image : representations of insects in Robert Hooke's micrographia
- Stitches, specimens, and pictures : Maria Sibylla Merian and the processing of the natural world
- Conclusion. Discipline and specimenize.
- Includes bibliographical references and index