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THE ART OF NATURAL HISTORY
ILLUSTRATED TREATISES AND BOTANICAL PAINTINGS, 1400-1850 |
| By: |
Amy R. W. Meyers (Editor), Therese O'Malley (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£40.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300160240 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300160246 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 February, 2010 |
| Series: |
Studies in the History of Art Series |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
Exploring the relationship between image and text, this title considers how both media aided the development and transmission of scientific knowledge. Presenting images found throughout Europe in works on natural history, medicine, horticulture and garden design, and studies of birds, and animals, it emphasizes their artistic and scientific value. |
| Synopsis: |
Now available in paperback "Making knowledge visible" is how one 16th-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 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 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 values. Illustrators are shown to have been both artists and either naturalists or gardeners, bringing to their work aesthetic judgment and empirical observation. Their fascinating images receive a fresh, wide-ranging analysis that covers such topics as innovation, patronage, readership, reception, technologies of production, and the relationship between the fine arts and scientific depictions of nature. |
| Illustrations: |
164 b-w + 63 color illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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