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The insect and the image : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700
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ISBN: 9780816667659 9780816667642 Year: 2011 Publisher: Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press,

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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, the decorative arts, embroidery, textile design, and cabinets of curiosity. In The Insect and the Image, Janice Neri explores the ways in which such imagery defined the insect as a proper subject of study for Europeans of the early modern period. It was not until the sixteenth century that insects began to appear as the sole focus of paintings and drawings-as isolated objects, or specimens, against a blank background. The artists and other image makers Neri discusses deployed this specimen logic and so associated themselves with a mode of picturing in which the ability to create a highly detailed image was a sign of artistic talent and a keenly observant eye. The Insect and the Image shows how specimen logic both reflected and advanced a particular understanding of the natural world-an understanding that, in turn, supported the commodification of nature that was central to global trade and commerce during the early modern era. Revealing how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists and image makers shaped ideas of the natural world, Neri's work enhances our knowledge of the convergence of art, science, and commerce today.


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Changing the nature of art and science
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ISBN: 9789401485333 940148533X Year: 2022 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) staat de laatste jaren volop in de aandacht. Het leven en werk van deze in Duitsland geboren vrouw, die zich later in Nederland zou vestigen, worden bestudeerd door entomologen, botanici en historici en zijn een inspiratiebron voor hedendaagse kunstenaars en schrijvers. In 2016 gaf Lannoo, in samenwerking met de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, haar meesterwerk Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium uit als facsimile. Dit Engelstalige boek bundelt de recentste wetenschappelijke kennis over deze opmerkelijke vrouw. De auteurs onderzoeken onder meer Merians pionierswerk inzake de voortplanting en ontwikkeling van insecten, haar werk methoden en -materialen, haar reis naar Suriname, haar netwerken en haar ruime invloed op de kunsten wetenschapsgeschiedenis. Haar werk wordt vergeleken met dat van vroegmoderne en hedendaagse artiesten en wetenschappers. Uiteraard toont deze uitgave ook tal van prachtige illustraties en heeft het boek een uitgebreide bibliografie en index.

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