TY - BOOK ID - 47080236 TI - Insect artifice : nature and art in the Dutch Revolt AU - Bass, Marisa Ann AU - Princeton University Press PY - 2019 SN - 9780691177151 0691177155 PB - Princeton Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy of nature KW - Art KW - History of civilization KW - History of the Low Countries KW - Nature KW - Tachtigjarige Oorlog KW - vier elementen KW - Dutch revolt KW - Hoefnagel, Joris KW - 42.01 history of biology. KW - Art and science KW - Art and science. KW - Arts, Dutch KW - Arts, Dutch. KW - Natural history illustration KW - Natural history illustration. KW - Natural history KW - Natural history. KW - Philosophy of nature. KW - Science and state KW - Science and state. KW - Science KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Social aspects. KW - Hoefnagel, Joris, KW - Eighty Years' War (Netherlands : 1568-1648). KW - 1500-1648. KW - Netherlands KW - Netherlands. KW - kunst en wetenschap UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:47080236 AB - This pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. Insect Artifice explores the moment when the seismic forces of the Dutch Revolt wreaked havoc on the region's creative and intellectual community, compelling its members to seek solace in intimate exchanges of art and knowledge. At its center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), a learned Netherlandish merchant, miniaturist, and itinerant draftsman who turned to the study of nature in this era of political and spiritual upheaval. Presented here for the first time are more than eighty pages in color facsimile of Hoefnagel's encyclopedic masterwork, which showcase both the splendor and eccentricity of its meticulously painted animals, insects, and botanical specimens. Marisa Anne Bass unfolds the circumstances that drove the creation of the Four Elements by delving into Hoefnagel's writings and larger oeuvre, the works of his friends, and the rich world of classical learning and empirical inquiry in which he participated. Bass reveals how Hoefnagel and his colleagues engaged with natural philosophy as a means to reflect on their experiences of war and exile, and found refuge from the threats of iconoclasm and inquisition in the manuscript medium itself. This is a book about how destruction and violence can lead to cultural renewal, and about the transformation of Netherlandish identity on the eve of the Dutch Golden Age. ER -