The insect and the image : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 /
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2011]
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| ISBN: | 9780816667642 (hc : alk. paper) 0816667640 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816667659 (pb : alk. paper) 0816667659 (pb : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- 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.