The insect and the image : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 /

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Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a remarkable uptick in their status during the early Renaissance. This quickened interest was primarily manifested in visual images--in illuminated manuscripts, still life paintings...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neri, Janice
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Geschichte 1500-1700.
Insects in art.
Art, European > Themes, motives.
Insectes dans l'art.
Art européen > Thèmes, motifs.
ART > Subjects & Themes > Plants & Animals.
ART > History > Renaissance.
Art, European > Themes, motives
Insects in art
Druckgrafik
Insekten > Motiv
Malerei
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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