TY - BOOK ID - 3262574 TI - The art of natural history : illustrated treatises and botanical paintings, 1400-1850 AU - O'Malley, Therese AU - Meyers, Amy R. W. AU - National Gallery of Art PY - 2008 SN - 9780300121582 PB - Washington National Gallery of Art DB - UniCat KW - 76:655.5 KW - 76.043 KW - 094:5/6 KW - 094:58 KW - 094:615 KW - 7.043 KW - 75.043 KW - Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst-:-Geïllustreerde boeken (boekillustraties) KW - Iconografie: flora in de prentkunst KW - Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Exacte en toegepaste wetenschappen KW - Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany KW - Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Farmacologie. Farmaceutische wetenschappen KW - Iconografie: flora; plantenwereld; bomen; bloemen; vruchten KW - Iconografie van de schilderkunst: flora; plantenwereld; bomen; bloemen; vruchten KW - Conferences - Meetings KW - 75.043 Iconografie van de schilderkunst: flora; plantenwereld; bomen; bloemen; vruchten KW - 7.043 Iconografie: flora; plantenwereld; bomen; bloemen; vruchten KW - 094:615 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Farmacologie. Farmaceutische wetenschappen KW - 094:58 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany KW - 094:5/6 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Exacte en toegepaste wetenschappen KW - 76.043 Iconografie: flora in de prentkunst KW - 76:655.5 Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst-:-Geïllustreerde boeken (boekillustraties) KW - Art and science KW - Natural history illustration KW - Nature illustration KW - Scientific illustration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3262574 AB - 'Making knowledge visible' is how one sixteenth-century naturalist described the work of the illustrator of botanical treatises. His words reflected the growing role played by illustrators at a time when the study of nature, as a product of the Renaissance, had been assuming new authority in the world of learning. An absorbing exploration of the relationship between image and text, this collection considers how both media aided the development and transmission of scientific knowledge. Presenting images found throughout Europe in works on natural history, medicine, botany, horticulture and garden design, and studies of insects, birds, and animals, the contributors emphasize their artistic as well as scientific value. Illustrators are shown to have been both artists and either naturalists or gardeners, bringing to their work an aesthetic judgment and an empirical observation. Their fascinating images receive fresh, wide-ranging analysis which covers such topics as innovation, patronage, readership, reception, technologies of production, and the relationship between the fine arts and scientific depictions of nature. ER -